NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 5 December 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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Sinuous Pits on Flank of Ascraeus Mons Troughs on the northeast flanks of Ascraeus Mons, one of the volcanoes on the Tharsis Rise, are the main points of interest in this observation. |
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Crater Partially Exhumed by Sublimation in Amphitrites Patera This area constitutes the interior of an ancient impact crater that was filled by a layer of smooth material, possibly composed of ash and dust, mixed with interstitial ice. |
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Unusual Depression Near Elysium Mons This unusual depression and the associated concentric rings are situated within an area thought to have been deposited as a mud flow. |
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Unconformity in the South Polar Layered Deposits South polar layered deposits are an accumulation of mostly water ice and dust, similar in some ways to ice caps like those in Greenland and Antarctica. |
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Layering in Upper Walls of Valles Marineris The layers, exposed in most rock outcrops in this image, are most likely lava flows from flood lavas which once erupted across the region. |
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