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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 18, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright materials, likely to be sediments rich in the hydrated sulfates, covered by a thin deposit of dark material, perhaps sand.
PIA26327:
Hydrated Sulfates in Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 17, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars are partially filled with deposits that have been interpreted to be ice-rich.
PIA26323:
A Song of Ice and Tectonics
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 27, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ridges in Aeolis Planum which tell a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today.
PIA22822:
Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 3, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple processes, which may have occurred billions of years apart, reflected in this HiRISE image of Aeolis Planum.
PIA25989:
Curving Ridges in Aeolis Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 28, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a fan of sedimentary rock on the southeast area of Gale Crater's floor.
PIA25988:
A Sedimentary Fan in Southeast Gale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the transition from a regular channel to an inverted channel in Arabia Terra.
PIA25983:
From Low to High Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 31, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars.
PIA25898:
Candidate Mud Volcanoes in Utopia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-04-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 27, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small crater that appears to be partly-filled by deposits that have flowed into, and around it.
PIA25897:
Looking at the Crater Half Full
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 21, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest this is a glacial (ice-rich) flow, but the surface is broken into plates like many lava flows on Mars.
PIA25794:
Glacial (Ice) or Lava Flow?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 28, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows impact disturbed dust over an area more than two kilometers wide, large enough to be visible in MARCI daily global images.
PIA25710:
A New Impact Event
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 12, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a feature that looks a bit like a bear's face.
PIA25709:
A Bear on Mars?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 4, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies located in the Southern Highlands just east of Gorgonum Chaos.
PIA25708:
Gully Activity in Triolet Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 24, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Harmakhis Vallis, an approximately 800-kilometer long outflow channel located in eastern Hellas.
PIA25707:
Going with the Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 29, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two cross-cutting depressions that may have been formed by the collapse of weak terrain along pre-existing faults.
PIA25701:
Tectonic, Volcanic and Fluvial Activity?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 14, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a curious depression with zig-zag walls on the north rim of Secchi Crater.
PIA25559:
The Tale of a Retreating Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 13, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an area where the flowing water may have stripped away some of the rocks and soils at the bottom of the valley, leaving behind the ridge-like formations.
PIA25551:
Landforms in Ares Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 20, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a cliff that cuts through the terrain and gives us a glimpse of the buried icy material.
PIA25505:
Cliffs of Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-31 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 29, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows (part of) a 6-kilometer crater located on the northern slope of Bond Crater.
PIA25504:
On Bond Crater's Northern Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 13, 2017 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows mega-ripples collecting along the flanks of the dark sand dunes near the North Polar deposits.
PIA25449:
Marvelous Martian Mega-Ripples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-07-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 28, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a ridge standing prominently in this scene, left behind as the surroundings were eroded, perhaps marking inverted erosion of an ancient fluvial channel.
PIA25448:
Ridges in Cydonia Mensae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 24, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Hebrus Valles, a complex set of channels in the northern lowlands of Mars just to the west of the Elysium volcanic region.
PIA25359:
Flooded Impact Craters in Hebrus Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 30, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows how water ice frozen in the soil splits the ground into polygons.
PIA25357:
Spring Fans and Polygons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 8, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows central Valles Marineris, filled with sediments rich in hydrated sulfates.
PIA25308:
Layered Sediments in Valles Marineris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 30, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an odd-shaped hole in Noachis Terra, clearly an impact crater.
PIA25307:
A Fresh Impact Crater with an Odd Shape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 26, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a slump, a mass of loosely consolidated material or a rock layer that moves a short distance down a slope.
PIA25189:
A Large New Slump in Eos Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 9, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a variety of dark circular features that are the remains of the layer that has been eroded back from the walls of the craters that formed them.
PIA25187:
Dark Patches Formed by Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-02-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 29, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an extensive surface brightness (albedo) boundary on this part of Mars.
PIA25183:
Boundary Boulders
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 27, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the crater that defines where zero longitude is on Mars, like the Greenwich Observatory does for the Earth.
PIA25090:
A Greenwich Observatory on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 30, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows depressions, found near the northern edge of the ancient highlands, that have fractures indicating collapse toward their centers.
PIA25089:
A Mysterious Fractured Depression on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 24, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a flat plain with various low, lumpy mounds, suggesting that they are made up of a different type of material.
PIA25087:
Possible Mud Volcanoes on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 16, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a dark ridge snaking across the surface in Mawrth Vallis.
PIA25081:
Ancient Rivers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-10-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 2, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Gordii Fossae, a volcanic region near Olympus Mons, the planet's largest volcano.
PIA24920:
A Gecko-Shaped Fissure Vent in Gordii Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 4, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a layered rock formation within Jiji Crater that has eroded into buttes and stair-like layers.
PIA24697:
Layers Blanket a Crater Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 12, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new crater visible here at about 13 meters in diameter.
PIA24619:
A New Impact Crater with Bright Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 4, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows gullies along the poleward-facing slope of a 10-kilometer diameter crater in the southern highlands of Mars.
PIA24612:
Crater Gullies at Multiple Elevations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 2, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dozens of dark, dust-free, streaks on slopes surrounding a crater.
PIA24382:
Blast Waves and Dusty Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 30, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a small crater, probably once filled with an ice-covered lake that overflowed, forming the exit channel.
PIA23738:
Pollywog Craters on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on December 25, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a crater south of Aurorae Chaos has a central pit exposing bedrock units with diverse colors, indicating diverse rock compositions.
PIA23737:
Exposing Colorful Deep Bedrock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-01-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on December 28, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a braided texture, typical of dunes that are transitioning into sand sheets.
PIA23674:
Dunes in Briault Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on October 26, 2017 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cross-section of ancient canyon systems in east Coprates Chasma.
PIA23530:
Enigmatic Canyon Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on July 28, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Chukhung, a 45 kilometer-diameter, central pit crater in Tempe Terra.
PIA23528:
Down in Chukhung Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on June 10, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows sedimentary rock and sand within Danielson Crater, located in the southwest Arabia Terra region of Mars.
PIA23454:
Layers in Danielson Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on October 1, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a wavy surface like that of the sea. These wave shapes are the result of erosion.
PIA23287:
Rhythmic Layers East of Medusae Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 23, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a small landslide in Iani Chaos. Landslides are common on Mars where there are steep slopes, including this area where there are numerous mounds and hills.
PIA23232:
A Snow Plow Landslide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 10, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows large gullies on both the pole- and equator-facing slopes.
PIA23100:
Complex Gullies in a Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 7, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Mawrth Vallis, a place on Mars that has fascinated scientists because of the clays and other hydrated minerals detected from orbit.
PIA23080:
Colorful Mawrth Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a recent impact in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars.
PIA23061:
A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 5, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows ripples in the sand which tell us which way the wind was moving and how it was diverted around these rock formations.
PIA23058:
Wind Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 30, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a complex crater, where we see bedrock in several locations from different depths in the crust.
PIA23057:
Exposing the Rock in Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-21 Earth Terra
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This mosaic was created from thumbnail browse images of data from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA22979:
ASTER Global Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 29, 2011 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dunes with ripples on their upwind slopes and dark streaks on their downwind slopes.
PIA22869:
Active Dunes in Wirtz Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-11-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 23, 2007 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a 3D perspective view of a small patch of ancient Martian land in Terra Sirenum.
PIA22867:
Looking at Martian Salts and Clays
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 2, 2014 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dune fields located among canyon wall slopes.
PIA22684:
Hanging Sand Dunes within Coprates Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 30, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows inverted channels within a fan whose origin could be either fluvial or alluvial.
PIA22683:
A Fan with Inverted Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on April 8, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the gullied western slopes of an unnamed crater (about 10 kilometers wide) in Acidalia Planitia.
PIA22681:
Crater Gullies and Fractures in Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This colorful image acquired on May 21, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows clays within the Eridania basin region.
PIA22588:
Clays in the Eridania Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this region of Lyot Crater, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of classic barchan dunes. Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters on Mars.
PIA22512:
Once in a Blue Dune
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In early Martian summer, at the time NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) acquired this image, the dunes are almost free of their seasonal ice cover.
PIA22463:
Patches of Snow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continually finds new impact sites on Mars. This one occurred within the dense secondary crater field of Corinto Crater. The new crater and its ejecta have distinctive color patterns.
PIA22462:
A New Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows some of these on the slopes of Nectaris Montes within Coprates Chasma on Mars. Sand dunes in Valles Marineris can be impressive in size, with steep slopes that seem to climb and descend.
PIA22455:
Dunes in Nectaris Montes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Shown in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are fan-shaped deposits emerging from regions of steep topography called alluvial fans. Alluvial fans on Mars are thought to be ancient and record past episodes of flowing water.
PIA22334:
The Case of the Martian Boulder Piles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the western wall of a small pit that is located along the floor of a larger trough in Coprates Catena. Dark layers line the bottom; light-toned layers are near the top.
PIA22331:
Layers along a Pit in Coprates Catena
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows an impact crater looking amusingly like a tadpole because of the valley that was carved by water that used to fill it.
PIA22241:
Crater Tadpoles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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An enhanced-color image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveals bedrock that is several kilometers below the top of the giant Valles Marineris canyons.
PIA22238:
Geologic History Revealed in Valles Marineris
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows blocks of layered terrain within the Olympus Mons aureole. The aureole is a giant apron of chaotic material around the volcano.
PIA22181:
Dark Materials on Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits.
PIA22187:
The Fault in Our Mars
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Lyot Crater is located in the Northern lowlands of Mars. The crater's floor marks the lowest elevation in the Northern Hemisphere as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO.
PIA22186:
Depressions and Channels on the Floor of Lyot Crater
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The two largest ice sheets in the inner solar system are here on Earth, Antarctica and Greenland. The third largest is at the South Pole of Mars and a small part of it is shown in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA22125:
Layered Ice Near the South Pole of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter covers a small central portion of the Hellas Planitia basin, the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and shows a dune field with lots of dust devil trails.
PIA22052:
Squiggles in Hellas Planitia
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In a view of the colorful west-facing scarp of Ceti Mensa, NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter sees the interior layers of the deposit, giving a window into the past history of the sediments as they accumulated over time.
PIA22051:
A Window into the Past
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Geologists aren't quite sure what to make of the dark splotch in the middle of this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO), one of several similar dark splotches that extend east and west for over 100 kilometers.
PIA22042:
Decoding a Dark Splotch
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater is located in Elysium Planitia, Mars, an area dominated by volcanic processes. It is likely that the crater fill material is volcanic in origin.
PIA22041:
A Highly Disrupted Crater
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This oblique image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of part of the North Polar layered deposits, acquired in the summertime, shows both phenomena in the upper and lower panels, plus a topographic bend in the middle panel.
PIA21954:
North Polar Layers: Streaking and Unconformity
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes many slopes in the middle latitudes of Mars showing icy flows or glaciers. The region shown here, in the south-facing slope of a crater. This region is unusual because the flows have bright highlights.
PIA21953:
Go with the (Bright) Flow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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On Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often sees inverted river channels preserved perched above the surrounding terrain because the sediment inside the river channel was stronger than its surroundings.
PIA21883:
The Hoodoos of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The clay-rich terrain surrounding Mawrth Vallis is one of the most scenic regions of Mars, a future interplanetary park, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21871:
A View of the Painted Desert Near Mawrth Vallis
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Cataracts are large landforms, and this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers only a small area of the innermost channel.
PIA21869:
Cataracts in Kasei Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Gorgonum Basin, one of several large basins within the Terra Sirenum region of Mars. Each basin has light-toned mounds, many of which contain clays.
PIA21767:
Light-toned Mounds in Gorgonum Basin
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the northern rim of a 30-kilometer diameter crater situated in the western part of the Tharsis volcanic province.
PIA21763:
The Niagara Falls of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this crater featuring sand dunes and sand sheets on its floor.
PIA21757:
Monitoring Sand Sheets and Dunes
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an elongated depression from three merged craters.
PIA21652:
A Triple Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows it is late summer in the Southern hemisphere, so the Sun is low in the sky and subtle topography is accentuated in orbital images.
PIA21636:
A South Polar Pit or an Impact Crater?
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This oblique view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small part of the near-rim ejecta from Tooting Crater which must be either melted rock from the impact event, or a wet debris flow from melting of ice.
PIA21648:
Flow on the Rim of Tooting Crater
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of the central uplifted region of an impact crater more than 50 kilometers wide.
PIA21640:
An Oblique View of Uplifted Rocks
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows small ripples, about 10 meters apart, located in Her Desher Vallis. Her Desher is a small channel that shows evidence of phyllosilicates.
PIA21639:
Erosion of the Edge of the South Polar Layered Deposits
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This image is an oblique view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the sloping edge of the stack of icy layers over the South Pole that has some interesting morphologies.
PIA21637:
Erosion of the Edge of the South Polar Layered Deposits
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a fresh well-preserved landslide scarp and rocky deposit off the edge of a streamlined mesa in Simud Valles, a giant outflow channel carved by ancient floods.
PIA21633:
Landslide!
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The collision that created Hargraves Crater impacted into diverse bedrock lithologies of ancient Mars; the impact ejecta is a rich mix of rock types with different colors and textures, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21609:
Colorful Impact Ejecta from Hargraves Crater
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an oblique view of gully deposits from the steep slope of an impact crater.
PIA21602:
Gullies with Color Anomalies
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Although Mars is known for having the largest volcano in our solar system, Olympus Mons, we also find small-scale volcanic features on its surface, as shown in this image from HiRISE onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA21601:
A Volcanic Fissure
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this region of Mars, sprayed with secondary craters from 10-kilometer Zunil Crater to the northwest.
PIA21591:
Secondary Craters in Bas Relief
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that layered deposits in Melas Basin may have been deposited during the growth of a delta complex.
PIA21580:
Clinoforms in Melas Chasma
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of Saheki Crater, about 84 kilometers across, and located in the Southern highlands of Mars, to the north of Hellas Planitia.
PIA21577:
A Sneak Peek into Saheki's Secret Layers
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This image shows a layered deposit in Galle Crater, located in the Southern cratered highlands, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21575:
Layers in Galle Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This full-resolution image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is centered on a bright deposit at the end of a gully channel.
PIA21574:
Distinctive Brightness
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows footprints of images taken from Mars orbit by the HiRISE camera onbard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of advance analysis of the area where NASA's InSight mission will land in 2018.
PIA21489:
Advance Inspection of NASA's Next Mars Landing Site
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This mosaic from the Context Camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft offers a resolution that enables zooming in for more detail of any region of Mars.
PIA21488:
Mars Global Coverage by Context Camera on MRO
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation is one of many that the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has been accumulate from late 2006 to early 2017 to form a nearly complete map of Mars.
PIA21487:
A Decade of Compiling the Sharpest Mars Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The mound in the center of this image appears to have blocked the path of the dunes as they marched south across the scene. North is to the left in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21572:
The Splitting of the Dunes
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows layered deposits in Uzboi Vallis which sometimes occur in alcoves along the valley and/or below where tributaries enter it.
PIA21563:
Layered Deposits in Uzboi Vallis
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