Eastern Rim of Endeavour Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Eastern Rim of Endeavour Crater
ESP_030872_1775  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
Endeavour Crater is a large impact crater formed on Mars billions of years ago. Erosion and burial have filled in the depression and reduced the rim to a broken-up ring of hills made of rock that is older than the surrounding plains.

The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is currently exploring the west rim of the crater, and studying new types of rock that are very different from anything seen earlier in the mission. HiRISE images of the rest of the crater help the MER team plan their operations and understand how particular sites visited by the rover fit into the big picture.

Written by: Colin Dundas (audio by Tre Gibbs)  (13 March 2013)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_031294_1775.
 
Acquisition date
26 February 2013

Local Mars time
14:44

Latitude (centered)
-2.304°

Longitude (East)
355.000°

Spacecraft altitude
268.7 km (167.0 miles)

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

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.6°

Phase angle
45.2°

Solar incidence angle
46°, with the Sun about 44° above the horizon

Solar longitude
271.7°, Northern Winter

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  331.7°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (662MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (372MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (317MB)
non-map           (367MB)

IRB color
map projected  (124MB)
non-map           (336MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (171MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (161MB)

RGB color
non map           (327MB)
ANAGLYPHS
Map-projected, reduced-resolution
Full resolution JP2 download
Anaglyph details page

BONUS
4K (TIFF)
8K (TIFF)
10K (TIFF)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
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:
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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.