A Crater on the South Polar Layered Deposits
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
A Crater on the South Polar Layered Deposits
ESP_058600_0990  Science Theme: Polar Geology
This image is part of a campaign to image potential impact craters in the south polar layered deposits (ice cap). This feature looks like a strong candidate for an impact crater because it is very circular are still has a raised rim.

The sizes and densities of impact craters provide an estimate for the age of the landscape, which in turn provides a minimum age for the icy layers.



Written by: Alfred McEwen (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (1 April 2019)
 
Acquisition date
26 January 2019

Local Mars time
14:57

Latitude (centered)
-80.850°

Longitude (East)
110.998°

Spacecraft altitude
246.6 km (153.3 miles)

Original image scale range
24.8 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~75 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
6.6°

Phase angle
75.1°

Solar incidence angle
72°, with the Sun about 18° above the horizon

Solar longitude
330.7°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth:  105°
Sub-solar azimuth:  58.2°
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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.