HiRISE | Gullies in Winter Shadow (ESP_049058

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Gullies in Winter Shadow
ESP_049058_2360 Science Theme: Mass Wasting Processes

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This is an odd-looking image. It shows gullies during the winter while entirely in the shadow of the crater wall. Illumination comes only from the winter skylight.

We acquire such images because gullies on Mars actively form in the winter when there is carbon dioxide frost on the ground, so we image them in the winter, even though not well illuminated, to look for signs of activity. The dark streaks might be signs of current activity, removing the frost, but further analysis is needed.

NB: North is down in the cutout, and the terrain slopes towards the bottom of the image.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (narration: Tre Gibbs) (21 March 2017)

Acquisition date
13 January 2017

Local Mars time
13:50

Latitude (centered)
55.805°

Longitude (East)
293.755°

Spacecraft altitude
307.9 km (191.4 miles)

Original image scale range
62.3 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~187 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.6°

Phase angle
86.4°

Solar incidence angle
81°, with the Sun about 9° above the horizon

Solar longitude
298.2°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth: 98°
Sub-solar azimuth: 303.3°

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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.