NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 10 October 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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Layers in Holden Crater Deposits visible in this image are over three billion years old, dating back to a wetter period of Martian history. |
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MSL Landing Site in Melas Chasma A region along the walls of southwestern Melas Chasma that contains extensive valley networks and layered beds. |
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Color Image of Nili Fossae Trough, Candidate MSL Landing Site The Nili Fossae region of Mars is one of the largest exposures of clay minerals discovered by the OMEGA spectrometer on Mars Express. |
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Rocky Mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae Region This image covers a region of science interest to which the Mars Science Laboratory rover might drive and explore. |
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Layered Bedrock in Candor Chasma Here, sheets and dunes of dark-toned sand cover the light-toned, layered bedrock. |
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Layers Exposed in Crater Near Mawrth Vallis A few dark patches on the crater wall have small dunes or ripples on their surfaces, and are likely pits filled with dark sand. |
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Colorful Rocks in the Central Peaks of Ritchey Crater A rich diversity of colors and textures in the region of Richey Crater, a well-preserved impact crater in the southern highlands of Mars. |
