Three Channels Exiting a Crater Lake
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Three Channels Exiting a Crater Lake
ESP_053670_2180  Science Theme: Glacial/Periglacial Processes
This image shows a roundish crater with three channels breaching the rim and extending to the south. The crater has been filled by sediments and may have been an ancient lake.

When the water began to overtop the crater rim, it would rapidly erode a channel and, at least, partially drain the lake.

Be sure to look at the stereo anaglyph.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (2 April 2018)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_053736_2180.
 
Acquisition date
07 January 2018

Local Mars time
14:59

Latitude (centered)
37.574°

Longitude (East)
21.402°

Spacecraft altitude
296.1 km (184.0 miles)

Original image scale range
60.3 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~181 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
11.4°

Phase angle
52.3°

Solar incidence angle
41°, with the Sun about 49° above the horizon

Solar longitude
111.7°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  359.3°
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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.