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Nili Fossae Region in Infrared

Colorful Mars terrain imaged from orbit
This infrared-red-blue color image of the Nili Fossae region of Mars was taken on Feb. 5, 2016 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This infrared-red-blue color image of the Nili Fossae region of Mars was taken on Feb. 5, 2016 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona