A Spectacular New Impact Crater and Its Ejecta
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
A Spectacular New Impact Crater and Its Ejecta
ESP_034285_1835  Science Theme: Impact Processes
Context Camera (CTX) images showed a likely new impact crater formed at this location between July 2010 and May 2012, and now a HiRISE image provides details about this recent impact event.

Our image shows a large, rayed blast zone and far-flung secondary material around an approximately 30 meter-diameter crater, indicating a large explosion threw debris as far as 15 kilometers in distance. Because the terrain where the crater formed is dusty, the fresh crater appears blue in the enhanced color due to the lack of reddish dust.

By examining the distribution of ejecta around the crater, scientists can learn more about the impact event.



Written by: Cathy Weitz (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (5 February 2014)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_035498_1835.
 
Acquisition date
19 November 2013

Local Mars time
14:57

Latitude (centered)
3.677°

Longitude (East)
53.428°

Spacecraft altitude
266.5 km (165.6 miles)

Original image scale range
26.7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~80 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.5°

Phase angle
45.7°

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

Solar longitude
51.4°, Northern Spring

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  29.3°
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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.