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Tag Archives: fresh craters
HiRISE: Crater on north polar layered deposits
109-meter diameter crater on north polar layered deposits. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, craters, fresh craters, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, ice, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, north polar layered deposits, University of Arizona
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HiRISE: Looking for ice
One of MRO’s ongoing campaigns is a search for new impact craters. At high latitudes, such craters often expose ice, which appears bright in HiRISE enhanced-color images. This image was targeted to look at a candidate new crater on a … Continue reading
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Tagged fresh craters, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, ice, impacts, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona
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HiRISE: Fresh crater on the northern plains
A fresh crater on the northern plains — Geologically speaking, of course. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, fresh craters, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, northern lowlands, northern plains, University of Arizona
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THEMIS: Rampart crater
THEMIS Image of the Day, February 17, 2016. This VIS image shows an unnamed crater in Acidalia Planitia. The margins of the ejecta are lobate and higher than the ejecta closer to the crater. This type of ejecta blanket is … Continue reading
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Tagged Acidalia Planitia, Arizona State University, ASU, fresh craters, Mars Odyssey, NASA, rampart craters, rampart ejecta, secondary craters, THEMIS, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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Ground ice in fresh craters down to 39° north
Since 2008, the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged 20 small impact craters and crater clusters that expose fresh ground ice. A paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research from a team led by Colin Dundas (USGS … Continue reading
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Tagged fresh craters, ground ice, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, ice, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona, water ice
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