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  • Changes at Edges of Dark Dunes in Nili Patera, Mars

    Changes at Edges of Dark Dunes in Nili Patera, Mars

    Two pairs of side-by-side, before and after images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter illustrate changes in the shape of edges of dark sand dunes in the Nili Patera region of Mars.

  • Changes on Dune Slip Face, Nili Patera, Mars

    Changes on Dune Slip Face, Nili Patera, Mars

    Before and after images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • Location Map for Images of Changing Martian Dunes

    Location Map for Images of Changing Martian Dunes

    The upper portion of this map is from an observation by the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a field of dark sand dunes in the Nili Patera region of Mars.

  • Dunes and Inverted Crater in Arabia Terra

    Dunes and Inverted Crater in Arabia Terra

    NASA's newest Mars orbiter has passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom: 100 terabits.

  • A radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected widespread deposits of glacial ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars.

    Glacial Ice Deposits in Mid-Latitudes of Mars

    A radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected widespread deposits of glacial ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars.

  • Terrain model of Mars' Mojave Crater

    Terrain Model of Mars' Mojave Crater

    A digital terrain model generated from a stereo pair of images provides this synthesized, oblique view of a portion of the wall terraces of Mojave Crater in the Xanthe Terra region of Mars.

  • Perspective View of Layered Mound in Gale Crater, Mars

    Perspective View of Layered Mound in Gale Crater, Mars

    This oblique view shows geological layers of rock exposed on a mound inside Gale Crater on Mars.

  • Layers in Lower Formation of Gale Crater Mound

    Layers in Lower Formation of Gale Crater Mound

    Layers of rock exposed in the lower portion of a tall mound near the center of Gale Crater on Mars exhibit variations in layer thickness and range between dark and light tones.

  • Layers in Upper Formation of Gale Crater Mound

    Layers in Upper Formation of Gale Crater Mound

    Layers of rock in the upper portion of a tall mound near the center of Gale Crater on Mars exhibit a regular thickness of several meters.

  • Dune symmetry inside Martian crater

    Dune Symmetry Inside Martian Crater

    Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin.

  • This combination of images helped researchers analyze the youngest flood lava on Mars, which is in Athabasca Valles, in the Elysium Planitia region of equatorial Mars.

    Turbulent Lava Flow in Mars' Athabasca Valles

    This combination of images helped researchers analyze the youngest flood lava on Mars, which is in Athabasca Valles, in the Elysium Planitia region of equatorial Mars.

  • This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars.

    Bright Layered Deposits with Clues of Acidic Water

    This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars.

  • Variation in light-toned deposits in a Martian trough

    Variation in Light-Toned Deposits in a Martian Trough

    This false-color image shows dozens of beds within a light-toned deposit located within a trough in the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars.

  • Gullies and flow Features on crater wall on Mars

    Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

    This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur on the walls of Martian craters, well after the impact crater formed.

  • Distal rampart of crater in Chryse Planitia on Mars

    Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

    An example of a rampart crater is the ridge in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • Channels on Mars from Hale Crater

    Channels from Hale Crater

    This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this view covers an area about 3 kilometers (2 miles) wide.

  • Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

    Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus

    Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • Spider-shaped features on Mars carved by vaporizing dry ice

    Radial Channels Carved by Dry Ice

    Spider-shaped features in the south polar region of Mars are carved by vaporizing dry ice in a dynamic seasonal process.

  • Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for mapping underground ice-rich layers of the north polar layered terrain on Mars.

    Radar Mapping of Icy Layers Under Mars' North Pole

    This composite graphic illustrates the use of the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for mapping underground ice-rich layers of the north polar layered terrain on Mars.

  • image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies near the edge of Hale crater on southern Mars.

    Gullies at the Edge of Hale Crater, Mars

    This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies near the edge of Hale crater on southern Mars.