NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 22 August 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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Southern Hemisphere Crater with Gullies A crater with gullies and ponded crater fill. |
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Cones and Ridges in Utopia Planitia Cones with summit craters join together in places to form ridges up to several kilometers long. |
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Fingerprint Terrain with Sawtooth Patterns in the South Polar Ice Cap Even on Mars, where the temperatures are much lower than on Earth, carbon dioxide ice is a volatile substance. |
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Exposed Layers in Central Valles Marineris A landslide scarp on the northern wall of central Valles Marineris, a large canyon system the length of the continental United States. |
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Elysium Mons Caldera A capture of the full western margin of the Elysium Mons caldera, a feature that forms by the collapse of land after a volcanic eruption. |