NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HIRISE Images January 11, 2012

– Banded Wall Outcrop in Ius Chasma http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024361_1735

This was thought to be an important area for the development of some post-Viking views of Mars.

– Aram Chaos http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024398_1835

This would be an interesting area to explore and to send a rover, because we think that water might have existed in the underground as ice.

– http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024618_1920

This is the twelfth image from HiRISE in the part of Isidis basin where the British Beagle 2 spacecraft was supposed to land around Christmas time of 2003.

– Defrosting Barchan Dunes http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025118_2570

Barchan dunes form by winds blowing mainly in one direction and thus are good indicators of the dominant wind direction when the dunes formed.

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.