HiRISE | North Polar Avalanche Monitoring (ESP_085496

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

North Polar Avalanche Monitoring
ESP_085496_2640 Science Theme: Climate Change

Acquisition date
22 October 2024

Local Mars time
12:50

Latitude (centered)
83.770°

Longitude (East)
237.415°

Spacecraft altitude
317.1 km (197.0 miles)

Original image scale range
from 31.7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 63.5 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
2.9°

Phase angle
86.8°

Solar incidence angle
89°, with the Sun about 1° above the horizon

Solar longitude
349.2°, Northern Winter

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 114°
Sub-solar azimuth: 306.1°

JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (633MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (292MB)
non-map           (341MB)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
EDR products
HiView

NB
Black & white is 5 km across
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images
USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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.