HiRISE | Higher Terrain between Sinai and Solis Plana (ESP_038932

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Higher Terrain between Sinai and Solis Plana
ESP_038932_1635 Science Theme: Tectonic Processes

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The terrain in this observation looks like an ancient uplifted crustal block. The area is riddled with faults (big cracks that allow rocks to slide) and ridges that look like uncovered magma dikes.

A Mars Orbital Camera picture shows the region to be moderately dusty, but rocks do poke out along the ridges. With a high resolution images, we want to know if the dikes are of the same composition as the flood lavas that surround this high terrain. And what material did the dikes intrude upon which can be eroded away?

This caption is based on the original science rationale.

Written by: HiRISE Science Team (narration: Tre Gibbs) (28 January 2015)

Acquisition date
16 November 2014

Local Mars time
15:34

Latitude (centered)
-16.393°

Longitude (East)
280.156°

Spacecraft altitude
251.8 km (156.5 miles)

Original image scale range
50.4 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~151 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.2°

Phase angle
50.9°

Solar incidence angle
51°, with the Sun about 39° above the horizon

Solar longitude
234.4°, Northern Autumn

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 353.1°

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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.