Tag Archives: fresh craters

HiRISE: Crater on north polar layered deposits

Posted on August 2, 2016 by rburnham

109-meter diameter crater on north polar layered deposits. Beautiful Mars series.

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HiRISE: Looking for ice

Posted on March 23, 2016 by rburnham

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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HiRISE: Fresh crater on the northern plains

Posted on February 23, 2016 by rburnham

A fresh crater on the northern plains — Geologically speaking, of course. Beautiful Mars series.

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THEMIS: Rampart crater

Posted on February 17, 2016 by rburnham

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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Ground ice in fresh craters down to 39° north

Posted on February 18, 2014 by rburnham

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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