Valleys near Huygens Crater
HiRISE PICTURE OF THE DAY: 19 APRIL 2025
Valleys near Huygens Crater

The objective of this observation is to examine valleys that appear to have ridges on their floors. The ridges may be inverted terrain. Huygens is about 450 kilometers wide, located in the heavily cratered Southern highlands of Mars. Crater counts of the rim unit of the impact basin indicate that it is almost 4000 million years old.



HiRISE Instrument News
Since July 23, 2023, HiRISE observations have lacked data from the RED4 CCD due to a hardware issue, creating a gap in the middle of image products and reducing the color swath to 1 CCD width. We are investigating the hardware issue and may be able to acquire some RED4 data in the future.

Glacier-like Features on Mars
It’s somewhat of a mystery why these features have flowed so much when they are so thin, the ice is so cold, and Martian gravity is so low.