NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 17 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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Negative and Positive Relief Valley Feature A sinuous ridge in Eastern Arabia, in the northern hemisphere, that might have been a valley with flowing water in ancient times. |
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Slope Streaks within an Impact Crater in Terra Sabaea Portions of the interior slopes and central uplift of an impact crater in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars. |
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Scalloped Terrain and Exhumed Crater in Amphitrites Patera A smooth mantle, made of mostly fine material, covers an older, underlying surface. |
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Graben in Memnonia Region Graben, usually associated with tectonically-driven extensions of a region, occur on many planets, including Earth. |
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Radiating Dark Slope Streaks These streaks are possibly areas where the lighter surface dust cover has been disturbed and partially stripped away. |
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Impact Crater Cut by Ganges Chasma Since its formation, the crater has had its southern half cut away by the formation of the gorge, Ganges Chasma. |
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