Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in Mawrth Vallis. Like on Earth, these river beds can get filled up with rocks that are cemented together.
On 7 October 2025, the HiRISE camera aboard MRO acquired an image of the Syrtis Major plains that marks over 100,000 images of Mars, which is a fabulous milestone!
On 2 October 2025, MRO turned away from Mars to image 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system!
HiRISE Instrument News
Since mid-2023, our RED4 CCD has operated only intermittently due to a hardware issue,
creating gaps in the middle of some image products and reducing the color swath to 1 CCD width.
We continue to command RED4 in all observations and it returns data approximately 50% of the time
This image provides a look at layered deposits that with a stereo pair with maximal vertical resolution, can give us some insight into bed thickness measurements. We can also derive a digital terrain model for even more detail about this terrain. Arabia Terra is a highland region in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere, dating back to the planet’s Noachian geological era, around four billion years ago.