NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HIRISE Images January 18, 2012

– Many Fantastically Colorful Gullies in a Fresh Impact Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024927_1445

This is an especially pristine crater so the slopes may be particularly steep and unstable.

– Gullies in Bamberg Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024951_2200

These gullies are of particular interest since there appears to be very little material accumulated on the floor here, unlike other craters with gullies.

– Tongue-Shaped Flow Below a Scarp in Phlegra Montes http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024958_2150

The source of the material and how it was deposited here remains unclear: debris flow, landslides, or a flow of ice-rich material?

– The Floor of Beer Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025136_1650

This crater was named after German astronomer Wilhelm Beer. It is an ancient crater more than 100 kilometers across, located south of Meridiani Planum.

All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/

Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument.