HiRISE | The Color Wonderland of Mawrth Vallis (ESP_045747

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

The Color Wonderland of Mawrth Vallis
ESP_045747_2030 Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites

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There is a candidate landing site in the Mawrth Vallis region for the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover, planned to launch in 2020. This is one of the HiRISE images acquired to evaluate this site.

Mawrth Vallis has some of the most spectacular color variations seen anywhere on Mars. This color variability is due to a range of hydrated minerals—water caused alteration of these ancient deposits—which is why this site is of interest to study the past habitability of Mars.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (narration: Tre Gibbs) (8 September 2016)

Acquisition date
30 April 2016

Local Mars time
15:13

Latitude (centered)
22.596°

Longitude (East)
341.549°

Spacecraft altitude
286.2 km (177.8 miles)

Original image scale range
28.8 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~86 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
5.5°

Phase angle
41.0°

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

Solar longitude
145.1°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 3.3°

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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

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Black and white
map-projected   (1089MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (635MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (560MB)
non-map           (490MB)

IRB color
map projected (164MB)
non-map           (442MB)

Merged IRB
map projected (290MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected (279MB)

RGB color
non map           (439MB)

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4K (TIFF)

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

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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

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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.