HiPOD: Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Bright Materials on Rocky Lampland Crater Floor

Bright Materials on Rocky Lampland Crater Floor

Bright Materials in Lampland Crater
This image footprint highlights an area that is dominated by bright exposures of rock as also revealed by the CaSSIS and Context Camera instruments. The CRISM instrument also on MRO has shown information related to the mineralogy of iron-containing minerals in this crater, which is s 79 kilometers in diameter and was named after Carl Otto Lampland.

ID: ESP_077294_1440
date: 22 January 2023
altitude: 250 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077294_1440
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Black & white is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km. For full observation details, visit the ID link.