NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 8 August 2007
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Onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen.
It’s the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth’s orbit.
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Layered Central Crater Mound A portion of a mound partly filling an impact crater. |
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Layers in Columbus Crater Bright layers on the floor of Columbus Crater, a large impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars. |
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Proctor Crater Dune Field The edge of a dark dune field on the floor of Proctor Crater, located in the southern highlands of Mars. |
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Dune Field in Crater in the Hellespontus Region Hellespontus is one of the regions on Mars where dust storms have often been seen to start. |
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Polygons on South Polar Layered Deposits An exposure of south polar layered deposits, thought to record recent global climate changes on Mars. |
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Blocks and Valleys in Southwestern Melas Chasma A portion of the wallrock and canyon floor in southwestern Melas Chasma. |
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Outcrops of Layers in the South Polar Layered Deposits The layers here are on the scale of meters in thickness and are much thicker than one might expect from annual accumulation. |
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Fault in the South Polar Layered Deposits Temperatures on Mars today are probably not warm enough to allow the creation of faults, which is why they are so rare in the Martian ice. |
