Exposing Colorful Deep Bedrock
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Exposing Colorful Deep Bedrock
ESP_062877_1690  Science Theme: Composition and Photometry
Large impacts produce uplifted central structures, either peaks, or pits, or an uplifted peak with a central pit. This crater south of Aurorae Chaos has a central pit exposing bedrock units with diverse colors, indicating diverse rock compositions.

This crater includes clay-rich minerals identified by the CRISM instrument on MRO. See this enhanced-color cutout over the eastern half of the central pit.

Written by: Alfred McEwen  (11 February 2020)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_044930_1690.
 
Acquisition date
25 December 2019

Local Mars time
15:31

Latitude (centered)
-10.883°

Longitude (East)
328.219°

Spacecraft altitude
264.6 km (164.4 miles)

Original image scale range
53.4 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~160 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.2°

Phase angle
54.4°

Solar incidence angle
61°, with the Sun about 29° above the horizon

Solar longitude
125.9°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  37.8°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
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Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (166MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (101MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (85MB)
non-map           (82MB)

IRB color
map projected  (31MB)
non-map           (96MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (165MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (148MB)

RGB color
non map           (86MB)
ANAGLYPHS
Map-projected, reduced-resolution
Full resolution JP2 download
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BONUS
4K (TIFF)
8K (TIFF)
10K (TIFF)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
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.