HiPOD, HiRISE Picture Of the Day Options

[climber]

I imagine a rover would see something like this (minus the liquid water of course... and the people):
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From this site

and minus the streack on the rigth and minus the blue sky and minus ....BTW, centsworth_II, WHY did you post this picture? and don't challenge me on Everest's pictures

[JunqueMan]

Hi, I'm new here to the forum, been lurking for awhile, and thought I'd chime in on this thread. I've always been extremely interested in Mars since I was a kid,

Here's an intriging closeup of PSP_001440_1255_RED which is described as "Channels on Dunes in Russell Crater". I find the channels very curious. The hypothesis by the MOC team definitely sounds plausible.

To a non-scientist, like myself, they remind me of when you roll a large snowball down a snow covered hill. The snowball leaves a trail, pretty much like those pictured, till it disintegrates. I wonder if they could have been caused somewhat in the same manner, but by clumps of Martian soil rolling downhill?

I followed the naming suggestion, however, I'm not sure how close the pixel coordinates are.

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[ElkGroveDan]

What about something like Vasquez Rocks

Ah my old stomping grounds. I grew up about 30 minutes from there.

[antipode]

Speaking of naming, it seems to me that as new metre scale features come into view with MRO, we are going to need a new set of naming conventions. Probably there are too many of these strange levy-edged gullies to name INDIVIDUALLY, but they seem to occur in clumps, or 'fields' - what might we be tempted, following other Martian naming conventions, too call these suckers?

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[centsworth_II]

BTW, centsworth_II, WHY did you post this picture?

Because I thought it was a good representation of what the MRO
image was showing us.... Ice mounds, undercut along the edges.
That's how I see it anyway. Here I show how the pink and yellow
backpackers and an observing blue-decked rover might look in
the MRO image. You can see the perspective from which the rover
would be looking into the undercut edge of the ice mound.

[climber]

Because I thought it was a good representation of what the MRO
image was showing us.... Ice mounds, undercut along the edges.
That's how I see it anyway. Here I show how the pink and yellow
backpackers and an observing blue-decked rover might look in
the MRO image. You can see the perspective from which the rover
would be looking into the undercut edge of the ice mound.

I've got the point and by puting the two pictures together I guess this is pretty accurate. (I was just joking because you say it is what it'll look like... minus this, and this and this... )

[jamescanvin]

Welcome, and thanks for chiming in JunqueMan.

Here's one for you - terrain doesn't get a lot more featureless than this, just a few tiny, metre sized craters.

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[Stu]

Good grief!! These new MRO pics are amazing!!! Somehow I managed to stay offline while I was away - quite an effort, I can tell you, with an internet cafe right in the hotel foyer!!! - but seeing these new pics I;m glad I did, I'd have done nothing else!

If the Swear Box takes Euros I reckon I can half fill it just from the expletives I let out seeing those gullies for the first time...!!!

[Nirgal]

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How true, Stu

and what makes all this especially fascinating is the fact that not only there are many incredibly-high-quality new mars images to explore but that at the same time, due to the sheer image dimensions, each one of us can explore a whole little new world WITHIN each of the imgaes themselves, scrolling accross those alien landscapes, almost as if we all could fly our own little mars exploration airplane above the surface

fascinating, incredible, beautiful, ... a childhood dream coming true

Thanks again for all of NASA/JPL/MSSS/HiRISE Team and all who made this possible and for the courage to
provide all this online & near-real time to the world-wide public !

[jamescanvin]

I think you need to fix your credit again Nirgal.



Next,

Dust lake, north of Viking 1.

Kind of reminds me of Clarke's A Fall of Moondust



James

[Nirgal]

Nice find.
I wonder how deep the dust layer is there (reminds me also of the "dust fall" observed recently by
mars express ...)

I think you need to fix your credit again Nirgal.

why ? my thanks obviously goes to anyone involved with the MRO spacecraft and instruments, including MSSS
for the Context Camera (CTX)

[jamescanvin]

Ah OK Nirgal, I got confused by a strange list of credits.



First from the new batch

Weird, just weird.



From: http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu//images/PSP/PSP_001410_2210/

[kenny]

Ustrax says: I'm a fan of the "enigmatic ice mound"...

Enigmatic Ice Mound

This is actually the startling frozen crater lake seen in color by Mars Express at 70N 103E in 2005:

Mars Express icy crater

Kenny

[tty]

This is actually the startling frozen crater lake seen in color by Mars Express at 70N 103E in 2005:

No crater lake this - it's 200 meters high!

tty

[jamescanvin]

Thanks Kenny, I hadn't made that connection.


Here are three more from the staggering Becquerel crater image.