Spring in Inca City II
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Spring in Inca City II
ESP_037811_0985  Science Theme: 
It is about two weeks later in Inca City and the season is officially spring. Numerous changes have occurred. Large blotches of dust cover the araneiforms. Dark spots on the ridge show places where the seasonal polar ice cap has ruptured, releasing gas and fine material from the surface below.

At the bottom of the image fans point in more than one direction from a single source, showing that the wind has changed direction while gas and dust were flowing out. Was the flow continuous or has the vent opened and closed?



Written by: Candy Hansen  (13 November 2014)
 
Acquisition date
20 August 2014

Local Mars time
17:05

Latitude (centered)
-81.439°

Longitude (East)
295.947°

Spacecraft altitude
247.2 km (153.7 miles)

Original image scale range
49.5 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~149 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
2.8°

Phase angle
85.0°

Solar incidence angle
87°, with the Sun about 3° above the horizon

Solar longitude
181.7°, Northern Autumn

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North azimuth:  110°
Sub-solar azimuth:  33.3°
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