Dust Storm Hampers Seasonal Monitoring Campaign
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Dust Storm Hampers Seasonal Monitoring Campaign
PSP_004353_0935  Science Theme: Seasonal Processes
A dust storm has been raging on Mars, hampering the ability of the HiRISE team to carry out a seasonal monitoring campaign.

An area of the southern seasonal polar cap was selected in December 2006 for repeated imaging, to observe the sublimation (evaporation) of the seasonal carbon dioxide polar cap through southern spring. Images collected as the season progressed show channels carved by escaping gas and fans of dust blown by the wind. This campaign has been stymied however by the arrival of a Martian dust storm. In this image the surface is completely obscured by the dust in the air.


Written by: Candy Hansen  (1 August 2007)

 
Acquisition date
01 July 2007

Local Mars time
17:56

Latitude (centered)
-86.245°

Longitude (East)
98.900°

Spacecraft altitude
245.5 km (152.6 miles)

Original image scale range
24.6 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~74 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
0.1°

Phase angle
64.8°

Solar incidence angle
65°, with the Sun about 25° above the horizon

Solar longitude
268.2°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  200°
Sub-solar azimuth:  43.9°
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Black and white
map projected  non-map

JP2
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map-projected   (2310MB)


JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (1697MB)
non-map           (1254MB)


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
EDR products
HiView

NB
Black & white is 5 km across
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.