Topography of a Flood Carved Channel
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Topography of a Flood Carved Channel
ESP_028473_1840  Science Theme: Fluvial Processes
This image is part of a stereo pair that allows one to look at the walls of a flood carved channel in 3D. By examining the walls in such detail, we hope to understand the process by which the channel was carved.

For example, in this location, there are a series of benches or terraces high up on the channel wall. By looking at the topography it should be possible to tell if (1) these are produced by sediments being left at these elevations; (2) the erosive fluid dropped in stages and thus did more erosion at certain levels; or (3) the wall of the channel was slumping inward as a series of landslides.

Written by: Lazslo Kestay (narration: Tre Gibbs)  (26 September 2012)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_028196_1840.
 
Acquisition date
23 August 2012

Local Mars time
15:36

Latitude (centered)
3.881°

Longitude (East)
332.649°

Spacecraft altitude
273.0 km (169.6 miles)

Original image scale range
27.8 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~84 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
11.9°

Phase angle
42.6°

Solar incidence angle
54°, with the Sun about 36° above the horizon

Solar longitude
159.5°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  98°
Sub-solar azimuth:  13.1°
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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.