Colorful Outcrops in Schiaparelli
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Colorful Outcrops in Schiaparelli
PSP_006754_1790  Science Theme: Sedimentary/Layering Processes
This image shows several colorful outcrops of rock in Schiaparelli, a large impact crater near Mars' equator. The colors indicate different rock layers and wind-blown materials, and a varied and complex geologic history. The area of the image is now being eroded, exposing several different types of material.

The enhanced-color image shows regions of several colors, corresponding to different textures. A prominent light-colored patch near the center of the image is one of the major rock types. This rock is eroding and has a scalloped appearance. Other rocks in this large light patch appear to have alternating light and dark layers.

Elsewhere in the image, the surface is blue and brown and has a ridged or rippled appearance, with several different scales of ripples. This material appears to sit on top of the light rocks near the center. These ridges have the appearance of ripples formed by wind-blown sand; strangely, however, some appear linked with ridges in the light outcrop at the center, so these could have been lithified (turned to rock). Observations like this one suggest that the relations between the units here are complex, since the units seem linked despite different colors and textures.



Written by: Colin Dundas  (20 February 2008)
 
Acquisition date
04 January 2008

Local Mars time
14:33

Latitude (centered)
-1.003°

Longitude (East)
14.242°

Spacecraft altitude
269.3 km (167.3 miles)

Original image scale range
27.0 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~81 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
4.7°

Phase angle
34.3°

Solar incidence angle
39°, with the Sun about 51° above the horizon

Solar longitude
12.8°, Northern Spring

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Sub-solar azimuth:  15.3°
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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.