NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 9 January 2008
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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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Wrinkle Ridge in Solis Planum A wrinkle ridge in the Solis Planum, a high-elevation volcanic plain located south of the Valles Marineris canyon system. |
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Central Pit Crater Impact craters have different morphologies depending on the size of the impactor and the properties of the target material. |
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Winslow Crater: A Not-So-Fresh, Fresh Crater This fresh impact crater was targeted after examinations of temperature images derived from THEMIS. |
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Hills and Cones in Utopia While the terrain in Utopia Planitia is generally smooth and flat, this image shows several hills. |
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Gullies with Sharp Color Contrasts A southern mid-latitude crater, with bright landslides and noticeable boulder tracks. |
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Scalloped Terrain with Layers An area in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars that is marked by large depressions in the mantle. |
