Images

Artist's depiction of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), orbiting above Mars. MRO entered Mars orbit in 2006.

USGS SIM 3480: Geologic Map of the Aeolis Dorsa Region, Mars

By: Devon M. Burr, Robert E. Jacobsen, Alexandra Lefort, Rose M. Borden, and Samantha E. Peel

Map and associated data available from the USGS Publication Warehouse: https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3480

This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3324 (2021-12-12 14:37:35 UTC). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This image was taken by Right Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3285. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image ›

Photograph of physical scientist Ryan Anderson, taken in the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, AZ in October, 2021.

USGS SIM 3477: Geologic Map of the Athabasca Valles Region, Mars

By: Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Alexandra E. Huff, and Windy L. Jaeger

Map and associated data available from the USGS Publication Warehouse: https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3477

Image showing a section of Lava River Cave, located in Northern Arizona. 

The image shows the Astrogeology Science Center experimental meteorological station.

Selfie of Lori Pigue atop SP Mountain, a cinder cone volcano in northern Arizona. The dark feature in the background is a lava flow that extends north from the volcano.

This new work represents a seamless, globally consistent, 1:5,000,000-scale geologic map derived from the six digitally renovated geologic maps (see Source Online Linkage below).

Description: This is a high-resolution oblique view of the northeastern edge of the delta deposit in Jezero crater, the landing site for the Perseverance Mars rover. In the foreground, buttes of delta material stand above the crater floor. On the left and in the middle of this image, the layered rocks of the delta deposit are visible.

This image was originally released by NASA.

NASA's original text:

Moon LRO LROC WAC Global Morphology Mosaic 100 m. Image processing completed using ISIS and orthorectified on both LOLA and WAC digital elevation models.

MSL Sol 2639: SAM Image

Sols 2574-2576: Characterizing Central Butte

PHOTO DATE: 09-19-19 LOCATION: Flagstaff, Arizona - METEOR CRATER SUBJECT: Photographic Coverage of 2017 ASCAN Class (Group 22) Geology Training in Arizona, ASCAN GEOLOGY TRAINING DAY 4. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD

Astronauts descending into Meteor Crater in Winslow Arizona. Terrestrial analogs like Meteor Crater provide excellent training grounds for planetary exploration.

USGS Field Test Support Unit (left to right) Dick Wiser, John Hendricks, Bill Tinnin and Putty Mills with the Explorer, a lunar rover vehicle simulator at Cinder Lake Crater Field east of Flagstaff, December 1968. 

Map of thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park. Most of Yellowstone's more than 10,000 thermal features are clustered together into about 120 distinct thermal areas (shown in red). Lakes are blue. The Yellowstone Caldera is solid black and the resurgent domes are dotted black. Roads are yellow.

Landsat-8 nighttime thermal infrared image from April 2017 showing the Tern Lake area. In Yellowstone, temperatures are extremely cold at night in the winter, and most lakes are frozen (dark pixels). West Tern Lake seems to be thawing here - perhaps it receives some thermal waters from nearby hot springs.

High-spatial-resolution airborne images of the Tern Lake area from 1994, 2006, and 2017. The area of bright pixels identified in the Landsat-8 thermal infrared image corresponds to a newly emerging area of warm ground and tree kills about 32,500 m² (8 acres, or 4 soccer fields) in area.