Colorful Rocks Exposed in a Fresh Impact Crater
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Colorful Rocks Exposed in a Fresh Impact Crater
ESP_074332_1580  Science Theme: Impact Processes
This image covers two overlapping impact craters, one approximately 4 kilometers in diameter and a second that is about 3 kilometers wide. The smaller crater has a sharply defined rim that interrupts the rim of the larger one, indicating that the smaller crater formed more recently.

Rocks of several different colors are exposed in this crater’s walls; they are undergoing erosion into finer-grained debris that travels downwards and accumulates in small fans on the crater floor. The rocks exposed on the eastern crater wall appear bluer in enhanced color than the redder rocks of the southern wall.

These craters are in the Terra Cimmeria region of Mars’ Southern Highlands, where they provide windows into the diverse compositions of the ancient bedrock.

Written by: James Wray  (23 August 2022)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_075400_1580.
 
Acquisition date
05 June 2022

Local Mars time
15:34

Latitude (centered)
-21.934°

Longitude (East)
135.866°

Spacecraft altitude
255.8 km (159.0 miles)

Original image scale range
25.9 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~78 cm across are resolved

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
9.2°

Phase angle
40.3°

Solar incidence angle
49°, with the Sun about 41° above the horizon

Solar longitude
240.9°, Northern Autumn

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  354.9°
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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.