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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images June 18, 2009

By SpaceRef Editor
July 5, 2009
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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images  June 18, 2009
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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.

o Valleys Carved into Elysium Mons
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_013144_2075

o Sulfate and Clay Strata in Gale Crater
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_012551_1750

o Defrosting Spots Over Polygonal Ground
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_012506_0850
All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

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

SpaceRef staff editor.