Dark sand covers intricate sedimentary rock layers in Ganges Chasma, a Martian canyon, and it’s composed of iron and magnesium-rich sand, unlike Earth’s silica-rich sand. This new image from NASA’s…
Colorful impact ejecta from Hargraves Crater on Mars. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views the colorful impact ejecta from the collision that created Hargraves Crater. The impact ejecta is a rich…
…itself around to point HiRISE out at Earth and Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons. As of early August, HiRISE alone had taken 6,882,204 images, generating 194 terabytes of data…
…that the tracks are more visible. HiRISE image showing tracks and the most current imaged location of the Zhurong rover. Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona. Like most Mars orbiting cameras, HiRISE acquires…
…and timing at the closest approach. Without this update, the comet may have been outside the HiRISE image area in the best images. HiRISE is one of six instruments on…
…at a time. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of a crater cluster on Mars, the first ever to be discovered AI. The AI first…
…from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. HiRISE captured the image on February 16, 2012, while the orbiter passed over the Amazonis Planitia…
This pair of images covers one of the hundreds of sites on Mars where researchers have repeatedly used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance…
…Crater. This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the nature of this terrain. Right: This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter…
…Context Camera data was used to further refine the northern hemisphere maps and, for the first time, HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) data was incorporated to provide the most detailed…
…past two years, researchers using images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera have detected and reported sand movement. Now, scientists using HiRISE images have determined…
This sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory…
…“X-ray” view of the spacecraft, revealing the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The movie then transitions to a sequence of HiRISE images of the comet taken as it…
Martian gullies as seen in the top image from HiRISE on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resemble gullies on Earth that are carved by liquid water. However, when they are observed…
This view from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges, some as tall as a 16-story building, intersect…
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere in this image taken on February 18, 2021, by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars…
…transport direction is toward the lower left and the inset is 100 meters wide. Credit: HiRISE data are courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona “Using repeat HiRISE images acquired over long…
…(HiRISE camera) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The crater was formed on December 24, 2021, by a meteoroid strike in the Amazonis Planitia region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona It is…