HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA)

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High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA). We are based out of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	May 31, '22	Just stay away from Mars, Pac-Man.	94.5×	0	24k	2.7k	223
2	Jan 25, '23	HiPOD: A Bear on Mars? This feature looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really? More: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	25.2×	391k	823	262	30
3	Mar 1, '21	NASA Perseverance on the Ground in Color Perseverance can be seen in this enhanced HiRISE color image at its landing site, six days after touchdown, doing system checks. The site a	19.2×	0	4.5k	653	43
4	Jun 12, '19	Caption Spotlight (12 Jun 2019): Dune Footprints in Hellas Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo. More: NASA/JPL/Un	15.5×	0	1.7k	979	21
5	Feb 19, '21	The Beauty of Flight! HiRISE captured this image of @NASAPersevere on its way to the landing site from over 700 km (435 mi) away!	10.4×	0	2.1k	459	13
6	Feb 21, '21	In less than 60 sols, we’ll find out: Drones in space: Can a helicopter take flight on Mars?	8.1×	0	2.1k	220	6
7	Mar 13, '21	The Red Color of Mars is Only Millimeters Thick –	7.4×	0	1.8k	229	18
8	May 21, '21	HiPOD 21 May 21: Curiosity Rover Climbing Mount Mercou The Curiosity rover has driven more than 25 km to date. The rover is currently ascending “Mont Mercou,” a broad outcrop of ro	6.9×	0	1.4k	286	21
9	Jan 9, '21	Nasa’s Curiosity rover: 3,000 days on Mars –	6.9×	0	1.7k	210	15
10	Feb 22, '21	Perseverance Hardware on the Ground This first HiRISE image of the @NASAPersevere Rover on the surface of Mars also shows many parts of the descent system that got it safely there.	5.4×	0	1.1k	258	16
11	Feb 10, '22	New Planet Discovered around Proxima Centauri, Star nearest the Sun –	4.6×	0	1.1k	152	9
12	May 21, '21	For those wanting a version of Curiosity without its halo.	4.2×	0	1k	123	15
13	Mar 25, '21	Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time	4.2×	0	984	149	5
14	Apr 13, '21	NASA prepares for a historic helicopter flight — on Mars	3.5×	0	905	91	1
15	Mar 7, '21	Perseverance’s Fortnight of Firsts on Mars -	3.4×	0	895	80	5
16	Feb 20, '21	Like the Ramans, HiRISE does things in 3s! We’ve successfully imaged hardware descending three times: Phoenix in 2008 (top); Curiosity in 2012 (middle); and now, Perseverance! See	3.3×	0	703	132	14
17	Mar 16, '21	Ancient Earth was a water world -	3.1×	0	778	78	12
18	Mar 20, '21	Titan’s largest crater might be the perfect cradle for life –	2.9×	0	743	83	4
19	Nov 19, '24	View of NASA’s Perseverance rover during its descent to Mars in 2021, captured from the rover’s perspective. The released heat shield, dark silver in color, is visible in the cente	2.9×	44k	321	76	34
20	Mar 25, '21	Mars helicopter Ingenuity expected to take flight in early April	2.8×	0	739	71	4
21	Mar 17, '21	HiRISE Epigrammata “Some days it’s melange; some days it’s bitter dirt.” —Rakian aphorism (Heretics of Dune)	2.5×	0	562	100	12
22	Oct 3, '21	Colonizing Mars Could Speed up Human Evolution	2.4×	0	549	64	7
23	Jun 4, '21	Newly discovered glaciers on Mars may help humans settle on the Red Planet one day –	2.4×	0	579	73	2
24	Apr 3, '21	A Lake in a Martian Crater was Once Filled by Glacial Runoff	2.4×	0	597	70	8
25	Jul 11, '22	“Somewhere beyond the heavens…” Congratulations, @NASAWebb !	2.4×	0	595	67	5
26	Aug 14, '21	How Black Holes Eat Reveals Their Mass -	2.4×	0	608	70	3
27	Mar 22, '21	Bright Nova Erupts in Cassiopeia -	2.3×	0	553	84	7
28	Mar 28, '22	5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone	2.2×	0	491	85	4
29	Dec 13, '18	We see you! Our image of the @NASAInSight lander and its hardware on Elysium Planitia. Read the caption: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona #Mars #science	2.2×	0	414	115	3
30	Mar 24, '21	The Milky Way’s Local Arm is Longer Than We Thought -	2.1×	0	480	82	13
31	Feb 22, '21	Perseverance on the Ground Each inset is about 200 meters (650 feet) across: Perseverance, the parachute & back shell, the remains of descent stage (skycrane) and the heat shie	2.1×	0	431	96	11
32	Mar 7, '21	Better call SG-1: Asteroid Apophis Pays Earth a Visit This Week –	2.1×	0	462	67	7
33	Apr 11, '20	HiPOD 11 Apr 2020: Year of the Dragon We rotated this image of light-toned blocky material in southwestern Melas Chasma because from this perspective, it resembles a fabled Chinese	2.1×	0	296	119	8
34	Aug 13, '21	Red Dwarfs Aren’t So Bad (for Planets) After All –	2.0×	0	531	44	5
35	Jun 30, '21	Astrophysicists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers –	2.0×	0	494	61	4
36	Aug 22, '21	HiPOD: Eye of the Beholder – NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	2.0×	0	505	57	2
37	Jun 24, '21	Any aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could spot Earth crossing the Sun –	1.9×	0	457	59	11
38	Sep 20, '21	Cold planets exist throughout our galaxy, even in the galactic bulge, research suggests -	1.9×	0	472	55	0
39	Jun 3, '21	Laser experiments suggest helium rain falls on Jupiter –	1.8×	0	434	64	3
40	Mar 11, '21	Today marks 15 years since MRO entered Mars orbit. What a long, strange trip it’s been. cc: @BallAerospace	1.8×	0	438	66	1
41	May 15, '21	China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars in a Major First for the Country –	1.8×	0	418	61	5
42	Sep 3, '21	New class of habitable exoplanets represent a big step forward in the search for life --	1.8×	0	442	51	7
43	May 25, '22	Ice at the moon’s poles might have come from ancient volcanoes –	1.8×	0	491	37	4
44	Jan 2, '18	Space exploration needs more than engineers, physics and math majors. It needs poets. It needs dreamers. It needs thinkers. It needs you. Happy New Year. #NASA	1.8×	0	317	105	0
45	Sep 5, '16	We couldn't resist.	1.8×	0	236	143	0
46	Jun 1, '21	Dark matter map reveals hidden bridges between galaxies	1.8×	0	404	63	7
47	Sep 7, '18	NEW: Hanging Sand Dunes within Coprates Chasma These types of dune fields are located among canyon wall slopes on Mars. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona	1.7×	0	292	104	0
48	Mar 6, '22	HiPOD: How Old are Martian Gullies? – NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.7×	0	375	53	4
49	Aug 28, '21	50 years ago, astronomers were chipping away at Pluto’s mass –	1.7×	0	442	44	6
50	Dec 14, '20	You know at this point, the Shadows are just flaunting it in everyone’s face.	1.7×	0	337	50	2
51	Mar 16, '21	After long shutdown, giant radio telescope array set to resume observations -	1.7×	0	424	47	2
52	Feb 24, '21	Hi8K: The Bisected Crater This impact crater is cut by a fracture that is part of the Cerberus Fossae. The fracture also cuts young lavas. It is not clear whether the crater or the	1.7×	0	388	57	7
53	Aug 29, '21	HiPOD: Alluvial Fans in Mojave Crater –	1.7×	0	441	36	5
54	Oct 22, '21	Did Venus ever have oceans? –	1.6×	0	427	38	1
55	Dec 12, '17	HiPOD (12 Dec 2017): Ridges in Meridiani Planum. These ridges are concentric around an impact crater. Are these faults? (274 km above the surface).	1.6×	0	401	59	0
56	Jan 30, '22	HiPOD: A Glimpse into History NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.6×	0	406	43	4
57	Sep 21, '21	Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests –	1.6×	0	399	44	5
58	Feb 15, '22	How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits –	1.6×	0	421	40	0
59	Jul 5, '21	UAE's Hope Spacecraft Captures Mars' Beautiful Glowing Auroras –	1.6×	0	342	58	4
60	Jun 25, '21	Are Mars volcanoes still active?	1.6×	0	376	47	4
61	Feb 12, '22	These are the first visible-light images of Venus’ surface captured from space	1.6×	0	377	56	3
62	Apr 28, '21	Proxima Centauri Releases Powerful Flare	1.4×	0	330	52	5
63	Sep 24, '20	Not adjusted for inflation.	1.4×	0	305	49	4
64	Jul 7, '21	NASA’s Curiosity Takes Step Toward Solving Mars Methane Mystery –	1.4×	0	367	33	4
65	Mar 2, '21	New to HiRISE? New to Mars? With over 68,000 images, it might be hard to figure out where to start, but our collection of captioned images is a good place: 1/	1.4×	0	321	45	9
66	Oct 25, '21	Dwarf planet Vesta a window to the early solar system –	1.3×	0	337	40	1
67	Mar 9, '21	Hi4K: An Impact Crater in Layered Materials This is a gorgeous impact crater located in Meridiani Planum, the region where one the two MER rovers, Opportunity, explored. (Click lin	1.3×	0	294	50	6
68	Nov 20, '21	An ancient exploding comet may explain why glass litters part of Chile: An airburst over the Atacama Desert 12,000 years ago melted the ground into glass, scientists say	1.3×	0	322	42	1
69	Jul 7, '21	Methane in plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life? –	1.3×	0	310	46	1
70	Sep 26, '19	Almost prophetic.	1.3×	0	255	70	4
71	Oct 29, '21	Unlocking the History of Globular Cluster Messier 5 –	1.3×	0	331	30	4
72	Feb 17, '21	Chlorine and Water are in the Air in Martian Summertime –	1.3×	0	320	37	0
73	Oct 21, '21	Jupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact –	1.2×	0	295	39	3
74	Apr 3, '21	Long-Awaited Muon Physics Experiment Nears Moment of Truth -	1.2×	0	288	39	9
75	Jun 23, '21	Iron Volcanos: Maybe Not Science Fiction After All	1.2×	0	276	43	6
76	Jan 1, '20	HiPOD 1 Jan 2020: Here’s Looking at You, Mars Our first HiPOD of 2020: a lovely crater with an eroded rim, but highly visible bedrock within. Our goal is to study some possible rec	1.2×	0	230	70	4
77	Jan 9, '22	HiPOD: River of Sand – NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.2×	0	285	42	3
78	May 13, '21	Water-ice Clouds Could Have Warmed Early Mars -	1.2×	0	307	32	1
79	Feb 19, '21	Our descent image is the product of scores of people who worked very hard to make it all happen. There were no guarantees that we could get an image with the rover in it. It was an	1.2×	0	307	25	1
80	Jul 30, '21	How do scientists calculate the age of a star?	1.2×	0	265	35	12
81	Jul 31, '21	“Liquid Water” below Martian Surface Might Be Clay –	1.1×	0	288	30	1
82	Jul 19, '21	Neutron Stars Have Micro Mountains, Astronomers Find –	1.1×	0	268	42	2
83	Mar 12, '22	HiPOD: Crater with Exposed Layers — NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.1×	0	277	33	2
84	May 4, '21	This is also how it all started on the machine planet VGER encountered, by the way. #justsayin #machinelife	1.1×	0	261	36	1
85	Aug 12, '21	NASA Probe Finds Higher Chance of Asteroid Bennu Striking Earth	1.1×	0	235	35	5
86	Jul 2, '21	There's no life in the clouds of Venus, study says. Jupiter might be different –	1.1×	0	263	34	1
87	Jul 8, '21	HiRISE Epigrammata “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” ― Confucius	1.1×	0	259	33	4
88	Mar 19, '21	Seismic Ripples Reveal Size of Mars’s Core	1.1×	0	255	35	4
89	Dec 5, '21	HiPOD: The Splitting of the Dunes – NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.0×	0	252	37	1
90	Dec 28, '20	HiPOD 28 Dec 2020: Craters within Craters –	1.0×	0	258	32	3
91	Aug 14, '21	HiPOD: A One-Kilometer Crater on the Floor of Saheki Crater – NASA/JPL/UArizona	1.0×	0	270	28	0
92	Jul 18, '21	HiPOD: The Side of Chasma Boreale – NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science	1.0×	0	243	36	1
93	Mar 25, '22	HiRISE 3D: HypnoCrater Just keep staring. And don’t ask any questions. NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science	1.0×	0	231	38	2
94	May 20, '21	HiRISE Epigrammata “The world is wide to everyone.” – Welsh proverb	1.0×	0	254	30	2
95	Oct 7, '21	Plutonian Mounts Aren’t Ice Volcanos –	1.0×	0	244	28	6
96	Oct 7, '21	Space rocks may have bounced off baby Earth, but slammed into Venus –	1.0×	0	242	26	6
97	Mar 19, '21	Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb	1.0×	0	243	29	3
98	Jan 22, '22	HiPOD: Ridges and a Valley with Flow Fronts NASA/JPL/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	1.0×	0	258	25	2
99	Mar 11, '22	HiRISE Epigrammata “Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.” — Thucydides	1.0×	0	230	32	2
100	Apr 17, '22	HiPOD: Bright Sediments on the Floor of Ladon Basin NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA	0.9×	0	226	26	1

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