Space Images: Slideshow - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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$This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Avernus Colles. The term 'colles' means small hills, and the surface here is being fractured into many small hills and mesas.$

Avernus Colles
Mars Orbiter Camera Acquires High Resolution Stereoscopic Images of the Viking One Landing Site
Making Tracks on Mars
Adsorbed Water Illustration
Beatis Mensa
Terra Sabaea
Bahram Vallis
Olympus Mons
Channel
Ascraeus Mons
Ice, Salt and Warm-Season Flows on Mars
MRO MARCI Weather Report for the week of 3 November 2008 9 November 2008
Phoenix Back Shell After Second Martian Winter
Opportunity's View on Sols 1803 and 1804 (Stereo)
First Scoop by Curiosity, Sol 61 Views
Canala Crater
Scaly-skinned Mars
Channels
'Columbia Hills' in Stereo
Phoenix's La Mancha Trench in 3-D
Floor of Ius Chasma
Mars Weather Map, Aug. 2, 2012
Clouds Move Across Mars Horizon
Soil Disturbed by Spirit Drives Before Fourth Martian Winter (False Color)
$Avenus Colles is a region of 'hills' separated by arcuate fractures. These features are the margin between the southern highlands and Elysium Planitia to the north. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey.$

Avernus Colles
Linear Ridges
Landslide in Margaritifer Terra
Sand Dunes
'Jake Matijevic' Contact Target for Curiosity
Dunes in Herschel Crater
Accurate Pointing by Curiosity
$This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a fracture north of Argyre Planitia. Note the dunes within the channel.$

Fracture
Coprates Chasma
$This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey captures Mangala Fossa. Mangala Fossa is a graben, which in geologic terminology translates into a long parallel to semi-parallel fracture or trough.$

Mangala Fossa
Dunes of Arabia Terra
Polar Layers
Nili Patera Dunes
Sampling Martian Soil (3-D)
Rocket Thrusters Expose Bedrock
$The tectonic fractures in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey on July 8, 2010 are part of Aram Chaos.$

Aram Chaos
Wind Erosion
$The fractured surface shown in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft belongs to a portion of a region called Gorgonum Chaos located in the southern hemisphere of Mars.$

Gullies of Gorgonus Chaos
Scooped Material on Rover's Observation Tray
Ganges Chasma
Spirit's View on Sol 148 (3-D)
Images of Gale #10
What Lies Ahead (3-D)
Rover's Self Portrait
Layered Deposits on the floor of Ganges Chasma
Lamont Crater Dunes
Popping the Lid off Curiosity's Hazard Cameras