NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images – March 7, 2012

– Dramatic Lighting of Icy Flows http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025646_1440

This image shows flow features on the inner slope of an impact crater east of the Hellas impact basin.

– Layers of Water-Deposited Sediment http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025665_1825

These layers have a morphology similar to that seen elsewhere on Mars in obvious alluvial fans where channels emerge into craters.

– Slope Streak Stripes on Crater Walls http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025913_1945

Slope streaks are common features on steep slopes in Mars’ dusty terrain, but this crater is a particularly dramatic example.

– The Serpent Dust Devil of Mars http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026051_2160

A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image in Amazonis Planitia.

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.