HiRISE | Wrinkle Ridges and Pit Craters (ESP_046817

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Wrinkle Ridges and Pit Craters
ESP_046817_1775 Science Theme: Tectonic Processes

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Tectonic stresses highly modified this area of Ganges Catena, north of Valles Marineris. The long, skinny ridges (called “wrinkle ridges”) are evidence of compressional stresses in Mars’ crust that created a crack (fault) where one side was pushed on top of the other side, also known as a thrust fault.

As shown by cross-cutting relationships, however, extensional stresses have more recently pulled the crust of Mars apart in this region. (HiRISE imaged this area in 2-by-2 binning mode, so a pixel represents a 50 x 50 square centimeter.)

Written by: Kirby Runyon (narration: Tre Gibbs) (19 October 2016)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_050865_1775.

Acquisition date
22 July 2016

Local Mars time
15:24

Latitude (centered)
-2.640°

Longitude (East)
290.937°

Spacecraft altitude
262.0 km (162.8 miles)

Original image scale range
52.7 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~158 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
6.8°

Phase angle
57.9°

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

Solar longitude
190.2°, Northern Autumn

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 2.8°

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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.