• MRO HiRISE Images - February 24, 2016

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    MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
    February 24, 2016

    o Summer Sand Dunes.
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044088_2640

    In the winter and spring, the dunes are covered by a
    seasonal cap of dry ice.

    o Colorful Hargraves .
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044161_2005

    This image is in a region that hosts many proposed future
    Mars landing sites.

    o Dramatic Shadows over a Fossil Glacier.
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044193_1430

    This image was acquired near the Martian winter solstice, when
    the sun was low over the horizon at this location.

    o Frosted Gully Slopes in Shadows.
    http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044327_1375

    At first glance, this image looks like a mistake because the
    gullies of interest are entirely hidden in a large shadow
    filling most of the crater.

    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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