NASA MRO Image Features Stunning Dune Gullies At Matara Crater On Mars
8 April 2018, 9:33 am EDT By Allan Adamson Tech Times
The HiRISE instrument onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured image of gullies
that formed on the sand dunes of Matara Crater on the Red Planet. How did these gullies form?
( NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona )
The HiRISE instrument onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured image of gullies that formed on the sand dunes of Matara Crater on the Red Planet. How did these gullies form? ( NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona )
ASA has released a new image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the $720 million multipurpose spacecraft launched in 2005 to find evidence that water persisted on the surface of planet Mars for a long period of time.
Gullies Running Through Martian Sand Dunes
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) onboard NASA's MRO captured stunning images of the Red Planet's Matara Crater featuring gullies running through sand dunes.
NASA said that these gullies have been very active with many flows over the past decade.
"In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter we see frost in and around two gullies, which have both been active before," NASA described the image. "There are no fresh flows so far this year, but HiRISE will keep watching."
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