A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra
HiRISE PICTURE OF THE DAY: 17 MAY 2025
A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra

Rather than a single impact crater, we see multiple impacts like a shotgun blast, suggesting that the impactor broke up in the atmosphere on entry.



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.