NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HIRISE Images February 15, 2012

– Uplifted Jumble of Ancient Bedrock http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025296_1535

Impact craters larger than a certain size have complex forms, including central peaks or other structures that result from structural uplift of the target material.

– Search for Soviet Mars 6 Lander http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025387_1555

Contact with the descent module was lost at 09:11:05 UT, about when expected to encounter the surface.

– Bedrock Exposures in Crater Wall http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025570_2330

Studying this site can yield information about the underlying terrain within this region.

– North Polar Layers in the Springtime http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025715_2605

This is an especially pretty image due to the color variations and lighting geometry.

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.