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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-10-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The ice-exposing impact crater at the center of this image is an example of what scientists look for when mapping places where future astronauts should land on Mars.
PIA26044:
Ice-Exposing Impact Crater Surrounded by Polygon Terrain
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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 July 11, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the southern wall of Coprates Chasma, in the equatorial canyon system of Valles Marineris.
PIA25985:
Diverse Minerals in Coprates Chasma
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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 April 9, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that while surface ice deposits are mostly limited to the polar caps, patterns of slow, viscous flow abound in many non-polar regions of Mars.
PIA25984:
Icy Flows
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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 2023-08-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 24, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many of the Valles Marineris canyons, called chasmata, have kilometer-high, light-toned layered mounds made up of sulfate materials.
PIA25982:
Light-Toned Materials along the Floor and Walls of Ius Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the route NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from May into July, 2023 to complete the most difficult climb of the mission.
PIA26017:
A Map of Curiosity's Difficult Climb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 16, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a group of curved ridges in an area called Lycus Sulci, which is located near the Olympus Mons volcano.
PIA25950:
Ridges in Lycus Sulci
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.276 MB)     JPEG (1.154 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on Febuary 15, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a cliff face broken up into jagged blocks. Debris piles at the base of the cliff show where these blocks have fallen out.
PIA25949:
Icy Cliffs at the Martian North Pole
Full Resolution:     TIFF (14.8 MB)     JPEG (471.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 3, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a classic example of platy-ridged lava. Scientists think that this is the same as a lava type called rubbly pahoehoe on Earth.
PIA25948:
Complicated Lava Cooling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on February 14, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an example of material having flowed downhill between two ridges.
PIA25947:
Glacier-like Features on Mars
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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 January 2, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows expanded craters with an unusually bumpy texture in the outer apron where sublimation occurred.
PIA25900:
Bumpy, Expanded Craters
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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 29, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Hellespontus Montes, a rugged mountain range located on the western rim of one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System: Hellas Basin.
PIA25899:
Waxing and Waning Winds
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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 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dunes that are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual.
PIA25795:
Circular Sand Dunes
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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 2023-03-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 21, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater floor at high southern latitude with many boulders ranging from 1 to 10 meters in diameter.
PIA25793:
Boulder Patterns
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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 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows mass wasting activity within a very steep (more than 60 degrees) scarp.
PIA25792:
A Look at a Steep North Polar Scarp
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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 October 23, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a dune field, located along the western margin of Hellas Planitia, the floor of a giant depression in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars.
PIA25704:
Dunes in Hellas
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.56 MB)     JPEG (1.105 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 23, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the northern plains of Arabia Terra, with craters that contain curious deposits with mysterious shapes and distribution.
PIA25703:
Mysterious Crater Deposits
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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 October 1, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows small channels formed on the floor of the much larger Kasei Valles, one of the largest outflow channels on Mars.
PIA25702:
Channels on a Streamlined Island of Kasei Vallis
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.258 MB)     JPEG (1.326 MB)
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?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.58 MB)     JPEG (893.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was captured using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA25587:
Context Camera Views a Mars Impact Crater in Tempe Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that's surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25586:
Flyover of Mars Impact Using HiRISE Data (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this before-and-after comparison of a region of Mars called Amazonis Planitia, which was struck by a meteoroid on Dec. 24, 2021.
PIA25585:
MARCI Views a Mars Impact Crater in Amazonis Planitia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.693 MB)     JPEG (156.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was discovered using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Context Camera took these before-and-after images of the impact in a region of Mars called Amazonis Planitia.
PIA25584:
Context Camera Views an Impact Crater in Amazonis Planitia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.22 MB)     JPEG (5.28 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an impact crater on Mars. The crater was formed Dec. 24, 2021, by a meteoroid strike in the Amazonis Planitia region.
PIA25583:
HiRISE Views a Mars Impact Crater Surrounded by Water Ice
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.226 MB)     JPEG (341.2 kB)
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 2022-10-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 24, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a large lava flow passed through the Athabasca Valles region of Mars long ago.
PIA25558:
In the Wake of Ancient Lava Flows
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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 July 8, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows what appears to be a slightly expanded crater in a field of scalloped depressions. It's possible that it will evolve over time to look more like the scallops.
PIA25557:
A Crater in Scalloped Terrain
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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 May 18, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Echus Chaos, a region of low hills located between Lunae Planum and Echus Palus.
PIA25556:
Slipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.56 MB)     JPEG (757.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The beige clouds seen in this global map of Mars are a continent-size dust storm captured on Sept. 29, 2022, by the Mars Color Imager camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25412:
Mars Dust Storm in Relation to InSight, Curiosity and Perseverance
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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 August 28, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows several shallow gully channels with associated debris aprons emanating from a buried layer on the interior of a crater wall.
PIA25554:
Gullies and Boulder Tracks
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.08 MB)     JPEG (973.4 kB)
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This image acquired on July 14, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an area in the South Polar cap.
PIA25553:
The Ever-Changing Swiss Cheese of Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (11.74 MB)     JPEG (557 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows sand dunes moving across the landscape. Winter frost covers the colder, north-facing half of each dune.
PIA25552:
Frosted Dunes in the Depths of Winter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.56 MB)     JPEG (1.164 MB)
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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.47 MB)     JPEG (1.733 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency's InSight lander using its seismometer. This crater was formed on Aug. 30, 2021.
PIA25411:
InSight-Detected Impact in August 2021
Full Resolution:     TIFF (35.9 MB)     JPEG (1.611 MB)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was later associated with a seismic event detected by the agency's InSight lander using its seismometer. This crater was formed on May 27, 2020.
PIA25410:
InSight-Detected Impact in May 2020
Full Resolution:     TIFF (25.26 MB)     JPEG (1.547 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency's InSight lander using its seismometer. This crater was formed on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA25409:
InSight-Detected Impact in February 2021
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These craters were formed by a September 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA's InSight.
PIA25408:
InSight Detects an Impact for the First Time
Full Resolution:     TIFF (50.08 MB)     JPEG (2.9 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA's Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive.
PIA25244:
Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Perseverance rover has been investigating rocks at the front of the delta in Mars' Jezero Crater along the path indicated in this annotated image taken by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA24923:
Perseverance Exploring the Front of the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-09-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The route of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is shown in this annotated image composed of overhead views from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA24922:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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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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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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This image acquired on June 5, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two overlapping impact craters.
PIA25503:
Colorful Rocks Exposed in a Fresh Impact Crater
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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 June 8, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels cutting through the ancient rim of Savich Crater.
PIA25502:
Channels to the North of Savich Crater
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This image acquired on December 13, 2017 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a variety of wind-related features near the center of Gamboa Crater. Larger sand dunes form sinuous crests and individual domes.
PIA25450:
Piles of Sand with Different Sizes and Colors
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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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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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This image acquired on March 12, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater that punched through the surface of Mars, revealing multiple layers formed previously below the surface.
PIA25447:
What Happened When?
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This image acquired on May 10, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows fluvial channels that cut through the ejecta from Jones Crater, indicating relatively younger water activity in the region.
PIA25360:
Young Fluvial Channels in Margaritifer Terra
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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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This image acquired on May 11, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 280-kilometer diameter crater center that has experienced a long history of water activity.
PIA25358:
A Complex Geologic History of Aram Chaos
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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 2022-06-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25364:
Six Views of Nili Fossae, as Seen by MRO's CRISM
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This near-global map was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM.
PIA25363:
One of CRISM's Final Maps of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows some steep slopes with good exposures of the bedrock layers, revealing diverse color and textures.
PIA25354:
Sedimentary Rocks inside Terby Crater
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This image acquired on January 20, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows rapid albedo (brightness) changes at this time of year (late northern summer) on the Martian polar cap.
PIA25353:
Rapid Changes on the North Polar Cap
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This image acquired on January 16, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows massive deposits of sediments rich in hydrated sulfates in central Valles Marineris.
PIA25352:
Cliffs of Crumbling, Layered Sediments
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This image acquired on January 15, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dune fields across Mars with good views of the bedrock structures and colors.
PIA25351:
Dunes in Meridiani Planum
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These dark streaks, also known as slope streaks, resulted from dust avalanches on Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured them on Dec. 26, 2017.
PIA25235:
HiRISE Spots Slope Streaks Fanning Out on Mars
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These dark streaks, also known as slope streaks, resulted from dust avalanches in an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured them on Dec. 3, 2006.
PIA25234:
HiRISE Spots Slope Streaks on Mars in Acheron Fossae
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This image acquired on January 30, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater that has been seen in images dating back 50 years to the Mariner 9 mission.
PIA25310:
Slow Changes at an Old Impact Crater
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This image acquired on January 22, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows pristine-looking gullies in equatorial Valles Marineris.
PIA25309:
Recent Gullies in Equatorial Valles Marineris
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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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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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This annotated overhead image from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) depicts three options for the agency's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter to take on flights out of the Séítah region.
PIA25029:
Mars Helicopter Route Options out of Séítah
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter were spotted on the surface of the Red Planet in this black-and-white image captured February 26, 2022.
PIA25174:
MRO's HiRISE Spots Perseverance and Ingenuity
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This image acquired on January 4, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a crater near 37 degrees south latitude. The south-facing slope has patchy bright frost, blue in enhanced color.
PIA25190:
Cool as Ice
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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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This image acquired on December 8, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows bright patches of frost (white in enhanced color) that are made up of water and carbon dioxide ices.
PIA25188:
Defrosting Dunes in Kaiser Crater
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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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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will follow the proposed route to Jezero Crater's delta shown in this animation. The delta is one the most important locations the rover will visit as it seeks signs of ancient life on Mars.
PIA25173:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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This annotated image depicts the multiple flights – and two different routes – NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could take on its trip to Jezero Crater's delta.
PIA25080:
Ingenuity Flights to the Delta
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This image acquired on December 5, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the southeastern flank of a volcano on Mars called Arsia Mons.
PIA25184:
Sculpted Surfaces on the Slopes of Arsia Mons
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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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This image acquired on January 6, 2022 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a crater on the floor of Eos Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris canyon system.
PIA25182:
Varied Types of Rock in a Crater in Eos Chasma
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This image acquired on November 27, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows sand dunes in Kaiser Crater partially covered with seasonal carbon dioxide ice (dry ice).
PIA25181:
Southern Spring on Kaiser Crater Dunes
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its Context Camera to capture this image of Bosporos Planum, a location on Mars. The white specks are salt deposits found within a dry channel.
PIA25047:
MRO's View of Salt Deposits in Bosporos Planum
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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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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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This image acquired on November 2, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an area on the western edge of Milankovic Crater on Mars, that has a thick deposit of sediment covering a layer rich in ice.
PIA25088:
Icy Cliffs on Mars
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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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Images acquired January 9, 2022, from the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were combined to create this view showing a regional dust storm obscuring the location of Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA25068:
Dust Storm and Jezero Crater
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This image acquired on August 29, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows different terrain types on the apron that indicate the presence and flow of ice.
PIA25084:
Lines of Pits in Protonilus Mensae
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This image acquired on September 13, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an impact crater in the mid-latitudes filled with smooth material that is probably ice covered with a little dirt.
PIA25083:
Icy Cliffs and Impact Craters
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This image acquired on September 4, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Orson Welles Crater, north of Ganges Chasma.
PIA25082:
A Tale of Collapse Terrain
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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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This annotated image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the journey NASA's Perseverance rover has taken and will take as it heads toward Jezero Crater's delta on Mars.
PIA25027:
Perseverance's Traverse From Séítah to Jezero Delta
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This graphic depicts Perseverance's entry into Séítah from both an orbital and subsurface perspective.
PIA25025:
Perseverance's Traverse, Seen From Above and Below
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This annotated image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), provides a look at the altitude of surface features standing between the Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter after the rotorcraft's 17th flight at Mars on December 5, 2021.
PIA24980:
Topography Between Mars Helicopter and Rover for Flight 17
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This image acquired on March 12, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a portion of an enigmatic formation called banded terrain, which is only observed in the northwest of the Hellas basin.
PIA24947:
Banded Terrain in Hellas Planitia
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This image acquired on March 21, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an eroded mesa made up of rhythmically layered bedrock that seems to indicate cyclic deposition.
PIA24946:
Layered Bedrock
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This image acquired on July 6, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows impact craters in the northern middle latitudes with wind-blown (aeolian) ripples in their interiors.
PIA24945:
Layered Deposits and Wind Ripples
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This image acquired on May 19, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a ridge that formed when the ground was pushed together, forming a wrinkle.
PIA24944:
The Wrinkled Surface of Mars
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