HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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26 March 2025 17:00

When You Just Need to Vent Our science goal with this observation is to investigate the vent shape, margins, and adjacent channels and fossae. Ceraunius Fossae is located on the southern part of Alba Mons and is 1,166 km (724 mi) long. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_07... #Mars #NASA #science

HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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26 March 2025 17:00

HiRISE 3D: Light-Toned Deposits Exposed along the Floor of a Terra Sabaea Crater Our science goal is to look for possible layerering in the deposits. Full image: www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA

HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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17 March 2025 14:28

HiRISE 8K: What Is This? What are we looking at here? There are long linear ridges or elevated terrains covered by regular patterns of dark spots. Full cutout on Flickr: flic.kr/p/2qRsQh4 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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17 March 2025 14:28

Could Mars’ red color have formed under wet conditions? A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when Mars was wet, not dry. www.astronomy.com/science/coul...

HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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16 March 2025 02:05

Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the presence of hot water www.newscientist.com/article/2471...