A Mesa in Noctis Labyrinthus
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
A Mesa in Noctis Labyrinthus
ESP_012744_1725  Science Theme: Composition and Photometry
This small (0.4 kilometer) mesa is one of several surrounded by sand dunes in Noctis Labyrinthyus, an extensively fractured region on the western end of Valles Marineris.

Heavily eroded, with clusters of boulders and sand dunes on its surface, this layered mesa is probably comprised of sedimentary deposits that are being exhumed as it erodes. The layers themselves are visible as faint bands along the lower left edge of the mesa.

Written by: Nicole Baugh  (11 April 2017)
 
Acquisition date
15 April 2009

Local Mars time
15:21

Latitude (centered)
-7.193°

Longitude (East)
267.928°

Spacecraft altitude
262.4 km (163.1 miles)

Original image scale range
52.5 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~158 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.1°

Phase angle
50.9°

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

Solar longitude
247.3°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  342.6°
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JP2 EXTRAS
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non-map           (70MB)

IRB color
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Merged RGB
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RGB color
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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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.