HiRISE | An ExoMars Landing Site (Oxia Planum) (ESP_056916

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

An ExoMars Landing Site (Oxia Planum)
ESP_056916_1990 Science Theme: Sedimentary/Layering Processes

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HiRISE plays an important role in finding suitable landing sites for future rover missions. Scientists have narrowed down the candidate landing sites for the upcoming European ExoMars rover mission to two regions: the plains of Oxia and Mawrth Vallis. (This particular area is slightly north-east of the landing ellipse in Oxia Planum.)

Images covering these areas aid scientists in picking a location that will be both scientifically interesting and a safe place to land and operate. HiRISE pictures help to assess the risk for each particular location so that a final landing site can be selected.

If you look very closely, the image may appear hazy. This is due to additional dust lingering in the atmosphere from the massive summer global dust storm at the time we acquired this observation. ExoMars is due to launch to Mars in 2020.

Written by: M. Ramy El-Maarry (29 October 2018)

Acquisition date
17 September 2018

Local Mars time
14:52

Latitude (centered)
18.641°

Longitude (East)
336.105°

Spacecraft altitude
282.6 km (175.6 miles)

Original image scale range
28.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~85 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
3.2°

Phase angle
62.6°

Solar incidence angle
60°, with the Sun about 30° above the horizon

Solar longitude
251.7°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 322.2°

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JP2 EXTRAS
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non-map           (525MB)

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HiView

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IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
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Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
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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.