• MRO HiRISE Images - September 21, 2016

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    MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
    September 21, 2016

    o River of Sand
    http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045081_1875

    The Cerberus Fossae are a series of discontinuous fissures
    along dusty plains in the southeastern region of Elysium Planitia.

    o Intersecting Channels near Olympica Fossae
    http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045091_2045

    What caused this array of various channels and intersecting pits?

    o The Wind-Scoured Lava Flows of Pavonis Mons
    http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045777_1765

    This image shows a circular impact crater and an oval volcanic caldera
    on the southern flank of a large volcano on Mars called Pavonis Mons.

    o What Lies Beneath: Surface Patterns of Glacier-Like Landforms
    http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_046039_2295

    These are many scientifically conservative ways of describing features
    on Mars that resemble mountain glaciers on Earth.

    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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