NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 15 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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Scallop and Polygonal Features in Utopia Planitia Features marked by depressions in the mantle, several of which have coalesced together, and possess scalloped edges and layers. |
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Bright Gully Deposit in Terra Sirenum A bright gully deposit and other gullies within a crater wall in Terra Sirenum. |
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Steamlined Landforms in the Western Charitum Montes Near the Argyre Basin Rim The streamlined hills vary in dimensions with widths up to hundreds of meters and lengths of more than a kilometer. |
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Dust Devil Tracks and Scalloped Terrain South of the Hellas Region The formation of some scalloped depressions is believed to be an ongoing process today. |
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Proposed MSL Site in Isidis Basin Escarp |
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Crater Central Peak A view of a central peak of a large, degraded impact crater in the Terra Sirenum region of the southern hemisphere. |
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Scalloped Terrain at Peneus Patera The terrain in this image consists of a rough, pitted lower surface and a smooth upper surface. |
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Inverted Channels and Layers Near Juventae Chasma Plains north of the southwestern Juventae Chasma, a canyon part of the gigantic Valles Marineris system. |
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Gullies in Sisyphi Planum This image shows the walls of a large pit inside Lyell Crater, near the south polar region. |
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Light Material in Ganges Chasma Wall The troughs and chasms of the Valles Marineris system contain light toned deposits of enigmatic origin. |
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