NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images: October 30, 2013

– Beautiful Layers in the Central Uplift of Mazamba Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033248_1520

This is only one of four impact craters known that possesses intact layers exposed in the central uplift.

– Enigmatic Channels on the Floor of Mangala Valles http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033264_1640

This particular area, called Mangala Valles and located near the Tharsis region, is may be an example of the action of liquid water in the past.

– Martian Thunderbird http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033297_1745

This non-circular pit is due to low angle impact from an asteroid or comet.

– Spring Slide http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033433_2650

The North Polar region of Mars is capped with layers of water ice and dust, called the “polar layered deposits.” This permanent polar cap is covered in the winter with a layer of seasonal carbon dioxide ice.

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.