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Storm Chaser on Mars
March 20, 2012
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Catches a Twister in Action.
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Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. HiRISE continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales.
Dunes and Ripples in Nili Patera
This proposed future Mars landing site in Acidalia Planitia targets densely occurring mounds thought to be mud volcanoes.
Proposed Future Mars Landing Site: Acidalia Planitia Mud Volcanoes
This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of "Concepción" crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars.
Opportunity at 'Concepción' Crater, Seen from Orbit
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) on April 11, 2014, to record this scene of a butte called "Mount Remarkable" and surrounding outcrops at a waypoint called "the Kimbe...
'Mount Remarkable' and Surrounding Outcrops at Mars Rover's Waypoint
Crater Floor Deposits in Promethei Terra
Crater Floor Deposits in Promethei Terra
Intra-Crater Structure in NW Hellas Basin, Mars
Intra-Crater Structure in NW Hellas Basin, Mars
Countdown Nears: Final Tests
Countdown Nears: Final Tests
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows sand dunes on the slopes of Nectaris Montes within Coprates Chasma.
Dunes in Nectaris Montes
This is an image of Gusev Crater taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera and is one of the potential landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover.
Mission 2020: A Candidate Landing Site in Gusev Crater
This image lies in the middle of a candidate landing site in the Northeast part of Syrtis Major, a huge shield volcano, and near the Northwest rim of Isidis Planitia, a giant impact basin.
Candidate Landing Site in NE Syrtis Major
This image acquired on January 10, 2019 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows large gullies on both the pole- and equator-facing slopes.
Complex Gullies in a Crater
These two infrared images of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring were taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Oct. 19, 2014....
Images From Mars-Orbiting Spectrometer Show Comet's Coma
The smaller, narrow ridges oriented vertically are yardangs, which are created by wind erosion; the wind strips away the surrounding terrain, and the ridges remain because they contain more hardene...
Meanders and Tributaries in Ridge Form in the Zephyria Region (3-D)
A portion of a trough in the Nili Fossae region of Mars is shown in enhanced color in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Or...
Color Image of Layers in Holden Crater, a Candidate MSL Landing Site
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea.
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea
The Russell Crater dune field is covered seasonally by carbon dioxide frost, and this image shows the dune field after the frost has sublimated (evaporated directly from solid to gas). There are ju...
Russell Crater Dunes, Defrosted
This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sand dune field in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The dark lines swirling over the surface of the dunes are the tracks of dust devi...
Dust Devils on Mars
This HiRISE image shows a group of cones, shield-like features, and round mounds.
Small Mounds in Chryse Planitia (3-D)
The Mars Color Imager (MARCI), shown here with a gloved hand for scale, is designed to produce a global map to help characterize daily, seasonal and year-to-year variations in Mars' climate, provid...
Mars Color Imager (MARCI) for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This image acquired on March 29, 2011 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dunes with ripples on their upwind slopes and dark streaks on their downwind slopes.
Active Dunes in Wirtz Crater
This diagram illustrates an interpretation for the origin of some deposits in the Eridania basin of southern Mars as resulting from seafloor hydrothermal activity more than 3 billion years ago.
A Geologic Model for Eridania Basin on Ancient Mars
This inner slope of a Martian crater has several of the seasonal dark streaks called "recurrent slope lineae," or RSL, that a November 2017 report interprets as granular flows, rather than darkenin...
Seasonal Dark Streaks in Tivat Crater, Mars
This image shows spidery channels eroded into Martian ground. It is a Sept. 12, 2016, example from HiRISE camera high-resolution observations of more than 20 places that were chosen in 2016 on the ...
Martian 'Spiders' in Sharper Look, Thanks to Volunteers
Dunes are often found on crater floors. In the winter, at high northern latitudes, the terrain is covered by carbon-dioxide ice (dry ice).
Frost-Covered Dunes in a Crater
This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a recent impact in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars.
A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra
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The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey's infrared camera.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover mission is complete after 15 years on Mars. Opportunity's record-breaking exploration laid the groundwork for future missions to the Red Planet.
NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End
In deploying its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, the lander completes a major mission milestone.
NASA's InSight Places First Instrument on Mars
