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HiRISE: Layers in a mid-latitude depression

Posted on April 24, 2017 by rburnham

Layers in a depression on a crater floor in the northern mid-latitudes. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: A sneak peek into Saheki’s secret layers

Posted on April 4, 2017 by rburnham

Saheki Crater is large, about 84 kilometers across, and located in the Southern highlands of Mars, to the north of Hellas Planitia. It’s filled with beautiful alluvial fans that formed when water (likely melting snow) carried fine material, such as … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Layers in Galle Crater

Posted on March 31, 2017 by rburnham

This image shows a layered deposit in Galle Crater, located in the Southern cratered highlands. The geologic history of Galle Crater is not well constrained, and it contains a variety of features that have been interpreted as fluvial, lacustrine or … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Plains south of Valles Marineris

Posted on March 29, 2017 by rburnham

This enhanced-color sample reveals the incredible diversity of landforms on some Martian plains that appear bland and uniform at larger scales. Here we see layers, small channels suggesting water flow, craters, and indurated sand dunes. [More at link]

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HiRISE: Fans and crater floor deposits southeast of Vinogradov Crater

Posted on March 15, 2017 by rburnham

This white, purple, and pink surface is located on the floor of an impact crater on the southeast rim of the larger Vinogradov Crater in southern Margaritifer Terra. The surface consists of what is left of a series of thin … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Layers east of Terby Crater

Posted on March 7, 2017 by rburnham

Layers east of Terby Crater. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: Group of thin layers

Posted on February 24, 2017 by rburnham

Group of thin layers. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: Colorful bedrock layers

Posted on February 23, 2017 by rburnham

Much of Mars’ surface is covered by fine-grained materials that hide the bedrock, but elsewhere, such as in this scene, the bedrock is well exposed (except where covered by sand dunes). Colors are enhanced in the cutout of a pit … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Layers northwest of Antoniadi Crater

Posted on January 24, 2017 by rburnham

Layers northwest of Antoniadi Crater. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: Beauty of layered stratigraphy

Posted on January 22, 2017 by rburnham

The layered bedrock in this image was brought from several kilometers of depth during the formation of this 44 kilometer wide crater in the volcanic plains of Lunae Planum. As these layers were exhumed and brought to nearly vertical orientations, … Continue reading →

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