Colorful Gullies in an Unnamed Crater Southeast of Uzboi Valles
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Colorful Gullies in an Unnamed Crater Southeast of Uzboi Valles
ESP_022262_1475  Science Theme: Mass Wasting Processes
Numerous gullies have eroded into the northeastern wall of this 15 kilometer (approximately 9 miles) diameter unnamed crater located in the southern highlands southeast of Uzboi Valles.

Although not as apparent in the grayscale version, the enhanced color version (infrared-red-blue ) of the crater walls reveals a variety of geological features. Thin light-toned layers are visible in the topmost part of the crater wall and more colorful fan deposits intermingle with dunes on the crater floor suggesting that these most distal fan units are fine-grained sediments and are easily transported into the dune region by local winds.

Written by: Ginny Gulick  (27 May 2011)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_022895_1475.
 
Acquisition date
27 April 2011

Local Mars time
14:40

Latitude (centered)
-32.322°

Longitude (East)
338.199°

Spacecraft altitude
255.0 km (158.5 miles)

Original image scale range
25.5 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~77 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
2.7°

Phase angle
33.4°

Solar incidence angle
36°, with the Sun about 54° above the horizon

Solar longitude
281.7°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  7.0°
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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.