HiRISE | A Candidate Landing Site in Utopia Planitia (ESP_062898

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

A Candidate Landing Site in Utopia Planitia
ESP_062898_2060 Science Theme:

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This image samples the smooth plains within one of the areas being considered for setting down China’s lander and rover, expected to launch in 2020.

While smooth on large scales, HiRISE reveals small-scale roughness elements, including craters, boulders, and other features. Such hazards may be avoided by using “terminal hazard avoidance,” a technology China has demonstrated on the Moon.

Utopia Planitia may have been extensively resurfaced by mud flows, so it is an interesting place to investigate potential past subsurface habitability.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (13 February 2020)

Acquisition date
27 December 2019

Local Mars time
15:21

Latitude (centered)
25.532°

Longitude (East)
109.500°

Spacecraft altitude
288.4 km (179.2 miles)

Original image scale range
from 28.9 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 57.7 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
1.3°

Phase angle
47.8°

Solar incidence angle
47°, with the Sun about 43° above the horizon

Solar longitude
126.7°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 10.0°

JPEG
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map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (409MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (278MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (197MB)
non-map           (150MB)

IRB color
map projected (78MB)
non-map           (205MB)

Merged IRB
map projected (112MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected (107MB)

RGB color
non map           (195MB)

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

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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

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.