HiRISE | Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits (ESP_018025

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits
ESP_018025_2720 Science Theme: Polar Geology

Acquisition date
01 June 2010

Local Mars time
05:18

Latitude (centered)
87.921°

Longitude (East)
292.773°

Spacecraft altitude
317.2 km (197.2 miles)

Original image scale range
33.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~100 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
18.6°

Phase angle
52.3°

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

Solar longitude
98.4°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 240°
Sub-solar azimuth: 318.8°

JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (314MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (165MB)
non-map           (133MB)

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.