HiRISE | Fragmented Crater Floor Materials (ESP_084214

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Fragmented Crater Floor Materials
ESP_084214_2110 Science Theme: Sedimentary/Layering Processes

This HiRISE image shows some unusual blocks within two adjoining craters near the highland-lowland boundary of Mars. The blocks could be associated with the collapse of the crater floor and their unusual shapes suggest that they have been subject to significant erosion.

Surrounding the blocks are relatively light-toned trains of aeolian bedforms, covering a range of different sizes. The light colour of the bedforms indicates that they are covered in dust and probably not moving today.

Written by: Joel Davis (14 October 2024)

Acquisition date
14 July 2024

Local Mars time
14:27

Latitude (centered)
30.677°

Longitude (East)
345.158°

Spacecraft altitude
293.3 km (182.3 miles)

Original image scale range
from 29.6 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 59.1 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
6.9°

Phase angle
69.5°

Solar incidence angle
65°, with the Sun about 25° above the horizon

Solar longitude
293.0°, Northern Winter

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 314.1°

JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (359MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (175MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (162MB)
non-map           (243MB)

IRB color
map projected (62MB)
non-map           (126MB)

Merged IRB
map projected (105MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected (102MB)

RGB color
non map           (128MB)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Color label
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Merged RGB label
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IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
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Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
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POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.