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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the 'Pahrump Hills' area of Gale Crater in this view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19114:
Curiosity Rover at 'Pahrump Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The dark fans in this image are made up of small particles from the surface deposited on top of the seasonal layer of ice; carbon dioxide ice still covers much of the surface at this high latitude site observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19292:
Icy Wonderland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Several terrain types converge in this scene observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from Arsinoes Chaos, in the far eastern portions of Valles Marineris.
PIA19291:
Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two small craters (called 'tangential craters'), just touching on their rims, in the much larger Ptolmaeus Crater, which is located in the Martian Southern hemisphere.
PIA19290:
Tangential Craters within Ptolemaeus Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The pits visible in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter aren't impact craters. The material they are embedded into is ejecta (stuff thrown out of an impact crater when it forms) from a large crater called Hale not seen in this image.
PIA19289:
Pits in Hale Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter made for a study of ancient craters, we see the craters filled with smooth material that has subsequently degraded into scallops. These formations might be possibly due to ground ice sublimation.
PIA19288:
Filled Crater and Scallops
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The terrain in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks like an ancient uplifted crustal block. The area is riddled with faults (big cracks that allow rocks to slide) and ridges that look like uncovered magma dikes.
PIA19287:
Higher Terrain between Sinai and Solis Plana
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows several seemingly active gullies and their associated fans near the Argyre region.
PIA19286:
Gullies Old and New Near the Argyre Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes the southeast rim of Hale Crater, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) in diameter and located in the mid-southern latitudes just north of the massive Argyre basin.
PIA19176:
Southeast Rim of Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes a group of small gullies along a rock layer on the south wall of Liu Hsin Crater. At the foot of the gullies 'fans' of granular sediment have been deposited downhill from the gully formation.
PIA19175:
Gullies in Liu Hsin Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation, taken in June 2014, covers a small 1-kilometer sized simple crater located in the Southern hemisphere in late Martian winter as Mars is heading into spring.
PIA19139:
Crater Slopes: The Power of a Repeat Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a triple impact crater in Elysium Planitia near Tartarus Montes, which probably formed when a binary-or even triple-asteroid struck the surface.
PIA19138:
Triple-Crater in Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image taken on Dec. 15, 2014 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a bright feature interpreted as the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander, which was never heard from after its expected Dec. 25, 2003, landing.
PIA19108:
Beagle 2 Lander Observed by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A configuration interpreted as the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander, with solar panels at least partially deployed, is indicated in this composite of two images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19107:
Beagle 2 Lander on Mars, With Panels Deployed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image, taken in 2014, shows where features seen in an observation by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been interpreted as hardware from the Dec. 25, 2003, arrival at Mars of the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander.
PIA19106:
Components of Beagle 2 Flight System on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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There are many knob formations is the southeastern Acidalia region of Mars. All show a hilltop crest except one which has a summit crater that resembles a cone volcano in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19131:
Cratered Summit of a Knob
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This channelized area is near the source region of the huge outflow channel, Ares Vallis. It was at the distal end or 'long-ways down-river-area' where the Pathfinder/Sojourner mission landed on 4 July 1997.
PIA19130:
A Plateau in Ares Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this observation from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, the morphology of these possible sedimentary fans match those found in Mojave Crater.
PIA19129:
Sedimentary Fans North of Mojave Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Visible in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a section of Cerberus Fossae, which are comprised of a series of rifts present located in Elysium Planitia just north the Martian equator.
PIA19128:
The Eastern Portion of Cerberus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a new impact crater in Elysium Planitia.
PIA19127:
A Recent Impact in Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is approximately 6 by 6 kilometers and is located east of Noctis Labyrinthus, in a portion the large canyon system Valles Marineris.
PIA19126:
Strange Flow: Landslide, Impact Melt or Lava?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of an approximately 5 kilometer (approx. 3.1 mile) diameter crater that is one of the rare examples of a fresh 'lunar-like' crater on Mars.
PIA19125:
A Polar Smile
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of an approximately 5 kilometer (approx. 3.1 mile) diameter crater that is one of the rare examples of a fresh 'lunar-like' crater on Mars.
PIA19124:
A Fresh, Lunar-Like Crater on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Elorza Crater is a complex crater located north of Coprates Chasma. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter centers on the southwestern portion of the central uplift, characterized by numerous bedrock exposures and coherent impact melt flows.
PIA19123:
Possible Opaline Silica in the Central Uplift of Elorza Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater. At this time of year only south-facing slopes retain the frost, while the north-facing slopes have melted.
PIA19122:
Frosty Slopes in Late Spring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, approximately 1.5 x 3 kilometers, shows a sample of eroded Martian terrain in Arabia Terra.
PIA19121:
Eroding Terrain in Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Polar layered deposits slopes are quite extensive and partially surround the South polar residual cap as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19120:
Polar Layered Deposit Slopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Details of hilly terrain within a large Martian canyon are shown on a geological map based on observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and produced by the U.S. Geological Survey.
PIA19084:
Geological Mapping of Hills in Martian Canyon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation simulates a flyover of a portion of a Martian canyon detailed in a geological map produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and based on observations by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19085:
Simulated Flyover of Mars Canyon Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This closeup from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a region in the Eridania Basin that shows interesting inverted ridges.
PIA19119:
Inverted Ridges in the Eridania Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Juventae Chasma is a giant box canyon, yet a relatively small segment of the enormous Valles Marineris system, seen here by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19118:
Recurring Slope Lineae in Juventae Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The frosted gullies in this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are located along an irregularly shaped pit which lies within an impact crater in Sisyphi Planum ocated northwards of the Southern polar layered deposits.
PIA19117:
Frosted Gullies in a Central Pit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Morava Valles, a small outflow channel in the Margaritifer Sinus region of Mars.
PIA19116:
Seeing Beneath the Surface in Morava Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows exposures of deposits along the plateau just to the south of Coprates Chasma.
PIA18933:
Clays along the Coprates Chasma Plateau
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The Athabasca region contains some of the youngest lava flows on Mars. This looks like a circular island surrounded by a 'sea' of smooth-looking lava flows. This image was observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18932:
An Enigmatic Feature in Athabasca Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Arabia Terra is one of the more dusty regions on Mars, where ever-falling red dust covers the surface allowing only minor variations in color and tone as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18931:
Dunes and Wind Streaks in Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Transverse aeolian ridges (TARs) are commonly found throughout the Martian tropics, including rocky regions such as Syrtis Major that are largely devoid of dust as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18930:
Braided TARs in Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A significant event has occurred in Inca City. The layer of seasonal ice has started to develop long cracks as evidenced by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18896:
Spring in Inca City V
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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At certain times in spring, fans take on a gray or blue appearance. This is the time in Inca City when this phenomenon happens, as seen in this image acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18895:
Spring in Inca City IV
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows there are a few more fans on the ridge as spring activity progresses in Inca City.
PIA18894:
Spring in Inca City III
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The season is officially spring on Mars in Inca City. This image was acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Large blotches of dust cover the araneiforms.
PIA18893:
Spring in Inca City II
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This was the first image to be acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the sun rose on Inca City, marking the end to polar night. A few fans are visible emerging from the araneiforms.
PIA18892:
Spring in Inca City I
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animated artist's rendering begins with NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft above Mars. The movie then transitions to a sequence of HiRISE images of the comet taken as it flew past Mars.
PIA19045:
Mars Orbiter Observes Comet Siding Spring (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring before and after its close pass by Mars in October 2014. False color enhances subtle variations in brightness in the comet's coma.
PIA19044:
Mars-Flyby Comet in False Color Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Five images of comet Siding Spring taken within a 35-minute period as it passed near Mars on Oct. 19, 2014, provide information about the size of the comet's nucleus. The images were acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18863:
Mars Orbiter Sizes Up Passing Comet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This graph shows changes in apparent brightness of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it approached and receded from Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The pattern suggests the comet rotates once every eight hours.
PIA18862:
Brightness Rhythm of Mars Flyby Comet Is Clue to Rotation Rate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE, with its high resolution and eight years in orbit about Mars, has shown that many dunes and ripples on the planet are active.
PIA18890:
Hardened Dunes in Arcadia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small channel cutting into young volcanic lavas in a region where massive catastrophic flooding took place in the relatively recent past in the Athabasca Valles region.
PIA18889:
Sand Sources Near Athabasca Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this image to aid in the search for the missing lander, Mars 2. If the debris field is found, it could serve as a future landing location to study the effects of crash landing on the Martian surface.
PIA18888:
Search for the Mars 2 Debris Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater that was cut by lava in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. It looks relatively flat, with a shallow floor, rough surface texture, and possible cooling cracks.
PIA18887:
Which Way is Up?
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These images were taken of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Oct. 19, 2014, during the comet's close flyby of Mars and the spacecraft.
PIA18618:
First Resolved Image of a Long-Period Comet's Nucleus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Most surface ice on Mars is temporary. The polar layered deposits are thick stacks of permanent water ice at each pole, and the South Polar residual cap may be a permanent (although dynamic) layer of carbon dioxide ice as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissanc
PIA18832:
Perennial Frost in a Crater on the Northern Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In the northern section of this from image NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we see flat terrain that is probably an ancient lava field. These dust avalanches are common in dust-covered regions on Mars.
PIA18831:
A Collection of Landforms in Eastern Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Melas Chasma is the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon, and is an area where NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected the presence of sulfates.
PIA18830:
Mounds of Layered Material on the West Edge of Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The objective of this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is to examine a light-toned deposit in a region of what is called 'chaotic terrain' at the base of the Valles Marineris canyon system.
PIA18829:
A Light Toned Deposit in Arsinoes Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows both dome and barchan dunes in a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300 kilometer (130 mile) wide crater in the Southern hemisphere of Mars.
PIA18820:
Dome and Barchan Dunes in Newton Crater
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright and dark slope streaks in craters in the Arabia Terra region.
PIA18819:
Bright Slope Streaks in Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. HiRISE continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18818:
Continual Dune and Ripple Migration in Nili Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Oxia Planum is broad clay-bearing surface between Mawrth and Ares Vallis that has been proposed as a future landing site on Mars. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18817:
Possible Future Mars Landing Site in Oxia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the transition between the 'Murray Formation,' in which layers are poorly expressed and difficult to trace from orbit, and the hematite ridge, which is made up of continuous layers.
PIA18785:
Geological Transition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-09-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, taken NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows distinct bands of alternating tone and brightness within the 'Murray Formation' on Mars. Outcrops like this are common throughout the formation.
PIA18784:
Bands on the 'Murray Formation'
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This image, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a mesa within the 'Murray Buttes' area on Mars showing a complex fracture pattern (black arrow) protruding from the eroding rock.
PIA18783:
'Murray Buttes' Mesa
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This is a map of lower Mount Sharp on Mars, showing the major geologic units identified from orbit. The rocks of the 'Murray Formation,' mapped in green, likely represent the oldest layers of Mount Sharp that NASA's Curiosity rover will explore.
PIA18781:
Map of Lower Mount Sharp
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Lava flows south of Arsia Mons in Daedalia Planum transition from younger flows with elongated, sinuous morphologies to the northeast, to older, broader lobes and sheet flows to the southwest. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18807:
Overlapping Lobate Lava Flows in Daedalia Planum
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The tropics of Mars are commonly littered with small bright ripples that were somehow shaped by the wind. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter might provide a valuable clue to the formation of transverse aeolian ridges (TARs) elsewhere on Mars.
PIA18806:
Banded TARs in Iapygia
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Vinogradov, an old, 224-kilometer diameter, heavily degraded impact crater in southern Margaritifer Terra.
PIA18805:
Mysterious Light-Toned Deposit in Vinogradov Crater
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Eridania is the name of topographically enclosed basin located in the Southern highlands of Mars that has been suggested to be the site of a large ancient lake or inland sea. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18804:
Chaos in Eridania Basin
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This recent image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired to certify a landing site for NASA'a InSight mission, shows a distinctive crater with a very sharp rim and ejecta.
PIA18776:
A New Impact Crater Near NASA's InSight Landing Region
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This mantle observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is thought to be deposited as snow during periods when the angle of the tilt of Mars' rotational axis-called obliquity-is much higher, which last happened around 10 million years ago.
PIA18775:
Mantled Terrain in the Southern Mid-Latitudes
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This crater captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a strange appearance, as if the crater has feet with toes sticking out of two sides, likely caused by a highly oblique impact event.
PIA18774:
Weird Crater
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of an area called Aram Dorsum (also known by its old name, Oxia Palus) that has been suggested for the 2018/2020 ExoMars Rover because it contains an ancient, exhumed alluvial system.
PIA18773:
A Possible Landing Site in Aram Dorsum for the ExoMars Rover
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The track left by an oblong boulder as it tumbled down a slope on Mars runs from upper left to right center of this image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18594:
An Irregular, Upright Boulder on Mars
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Hellas Crater in the ancient highlands contains some of the clearest evidence on Mars for glacial processes. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a number of features consistent with glaciation.
PIA18647:
Glaciation at the Eastern Hellas Margin
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The north end of this long image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a lava surface in southern Elysium Planitia. Small cones are common on the extensive young flood lavas in this region.
PIA18646:
The Side of Chasma Boreale
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The north end of this long image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a lava surface in southern Elysium Planitia. Small cones are common on the extensive young flood lavas in this region.
PIA18645:
Strange Cones and Flows
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Schiaparelli Crater is a 460 kilometer (286 mile) wide multi-ring structure. However, it is a very shallow crater, apparently filled by younger materials such as lava and/or fluvial and aeolian sediments as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18635:
Layers and Sand on the Floor of Schiaparelli Crater
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Monitoring by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE has shown that gully formation on Mars occurs in winter and early spring in times and places with frost on the ground.
PIA18634:
Frosty Gullies
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows what is termed a pedestal crater, so-called because the level of the surface adjacent to the crater is elevated relative to the surface of the surrounding terrain.
PIA18633:
Preserving Ice from a Vanished Terrain
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Many of the depressions in Noctis Labyrinthus contain water-bearing minerals, suggesting that water was available and persistent in this region during the Late Hesperian to Amazonian epochs on Mars, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18632:
Water-Bearing Rocks in Noctis Labyrinthus
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows some interesting fractured materials on the floor of an impact crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA18625:
Ancient Lake Sediments in a Crater
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At Mars' North Pole is a dome of icy layers ranging up to 2 kilometers thick, roughly analogous to the Earth's ice caps in Greenland or Antarctica. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18624:
The Icy Surface of the North Polar Cap
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Eridania Basin, located at the head of Ma'adim Vallis, has mounting geomorphic and spectral evidence that it may have been the site of an ancient inland sea. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18623:
Ridges in Eridania Basin
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This pair of images covers one of many sites on Mars where researchers use the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to study changes in gullies on slopes. Changes are visible in deposits near the lower end of this gully.
PIA18400:
Changes Near Downhill End of a Martian Gully
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a location that has been imaged several times to look for changes in gullies.
PIA18538:
Activity in Martian Gully
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image on 27 June 2014, when Curiosity had just crossed the edge of the 3-sigma landing.
PIA18581:
Curiosity Offside!
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This June 27, 2014, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on the rover's landing-ellipse boundary, which is superimposed on the image.
PIA18399:
Curiosity Mars Rover Reaching Edge of Its Landing Ellipse
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An impact crater in Isidis Planitia observed for a fifth time by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18622:
An Impact Crater in Isidis Planitia
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This image NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbitershows a prominently stratified transect through the rock of a mountain of material in the middle of Hebes Chasma.
PIA18621:
A Revealing Landslide in Hebes Chasma
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An impact crater in Isidis Planitia observed for a fifth time by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18620:
Feathery Ridges
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Pavonis Mons is a giant shield volcano similar to (although larger than) those on the Big Island of Hawaii. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18589:
A Giant Cave on a Giant Volcano
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appears to show some type of mass movement of material down the wall of a mesa in Deuteronilus Mensae.
PIA18588:
Moving Mass Material on a Mesa
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The North Polar layered deposits (NPLD) are a stack of layers of ice and dust at the North Pole of Mars. The layers are thought to have been deposited over millions of years. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18587:
Waiting for Dust Devils
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The North Polar layered deposits (NPLD) are a stack of layers of ice and dust at the North Pole of Mars. The layers are thought to have been deposited over millions of years. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18586:
Blockfall on the North Polar Layered Deposits
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This image NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dozens of dark-toned dunes in and around several craters within the rugged terrain of Terra Cimmeria.
PIA18585:
Sand Dune Catch and Release
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On Mars, alluvial fans are sometimes visible in impact crater basins, as material from the steep rims is transported radially inward to the relatively flat floor. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18513:
An Alluvial Fan in a Low-Latitude Crater
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows features commonly found in dusty areas: impacts, slope streaks and bed-forms.
PIA18512:
Touring a Dusty Region
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This crater, seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is located in Meridiani Planum, about 20-kilometers northwest of where NASA's Opportunity rover landed in 2004 and about 42-kilometers northwest of Endeavour Crater's rim.
PIA18511:
A Large Crater in Meridiani Planum
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Called 'draa,' ripples, transverse aeolian ridges (known as TARs), dunes, are all observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in this Juventae Chasma image.
PIA18510:
The Draa of Mars
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This April 6, 2014, image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows numerous landslides in the vicinity of where an impact crater was excavated in March 2012.
PIA18385:
Landslides Near Fresh Crater on Mars
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The largest crater associated with a March 2012 impact on Mars has many smaller craters around it, revealed in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18384:
Large, Fresh Crater Surrounded by Smaller Craters
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