10 killer shots of the Martian landscape

This volcanic cone in the Nili Patera caldera on Mars has hydrothermal mineral deposits on the southern flanks and nearby terrains.

A digital terrain model generated from a stereo pair of images provides this synthesized, oblique view of a portion of the wall terraces of Mojave Crater in the Xanthe Terra region of Mars.

Two classes of aeolian bedforms within Proctor Crater.

This image from the Gordii Dorsum region of Mars shows a large area covered with polygonal ridges in an almost geometric pattern. The ridges may have originally been dunes.

This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars.

At the center of this view of an area of mid-latitude northern Mars, a fresh crater about 6 meters (20 feet) in diameter holds an exposure of bright material, blue in this false-color image.

This image shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere.

Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters.

Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible.

The dark branched features in the floor of Antoniadi Crater look like giant ferns, or fern casts.