• MRO HiRISE Images - March 9, 2016

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    MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
    March 9, 2016

    o The Northwest Floor of Gale Crater
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_043816_1750

    The light-toned deposits within the lobes of a small impact
    crater might contain hydrated minerals.

    o The Southern Floor of Gale Crater
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_043961_1740

    An enigmatic deposit inside a small crater on the floor of Gale
    Crater appears to have flowed into the crater from the south.

    o The Dune Sea of Ganges Chasma
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044258_1715

    This image is at the eastern edge of a very large deposit of
    wind-blown dust that occupies Ganges Chasma.

    o Night Vision
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044709_1275

    This image was taken to look at seasonal frost in gullies during
    southern winter on Mars, with the Sun only about two degrees over
    the horizon, as opposed to the typical 15 degrees.

    All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

    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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