Active Slope Flows on the Central Hills of Hale Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Active Slope Flows on the Central Hills of Hale Crater
ESP_031203_1440  Science Theme: Mass Wasting Processes
HiRISE has been monitoring steep slopes on Mars because some of them reveal active processes. In some cases, there are many seasonal flows on warm slopes, suggesting some role for water in their activity.

The central hills in Hale Crater is one such location, with thousands of seasonal flows on steep slopes below bedrock outcrops. The cutout shows a small sample of this image, with relatively dark and reddish lines extending onto sediment fans.

These lines grow slowly over several months time, fade and disappear in the cold season (southern winter), then reform the next warm season (southern spring and summer).

Written by: Alfred McEwen  (29 May 2013)
 
Acquisition date
23 March 2013

Local Mars time
14:40

Latitude (centered)
-35.672°

Longitude (East)
323.484°

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254.4 km (158.1 miles)

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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.