• MRO HiRISE Images: June 29, 2016

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    MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
    June 29, 2016

    o Martian Morse Code
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044675_2580

    The shape and orientation of dunes can usually tell us about
    wind direction, but in this image, the dune-forms are very complex.

    o Glowing Gullies in Kaiser Crater Dunes
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045324_1325

    The giant sand dunes in Kaiser Crater experience gully erosion of the
    steep slip faces every year in late winter as the sun warms the slopes.

    o Bedrock North of Terby Crater
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045335_1535
    .
    These may be some of the oldest rocks exposed at the Martian surface.

    o Dreaming of Graben in the Labyrinth of the Night
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045605_1715

    Noctis Labyrinthus is a highly tectonized region immediately to the west
    of Valles Marineris. It formed when Mars' crust stretched itself apart.

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

    Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is
    online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is
    managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division
    of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA
    Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed
    Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor
    and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the
    University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies
    Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument.

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