HiRISE | A Colorful New Crater (ESP_080494

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

A Colorful New Crater
ESP_080494_1700 Science Theme:

This image shows a small, colorful new crater near the equator of Mars, first detected by the Context Camera. The distinctive color of all of the ejecta shows that the surface material is different from the subsurface.

Craters like this can provide useful probes of the composition of buried materials, which can be different from the surface because of weathering or processes that preferentially add or remove materials with different composition or grain size.

Written by: HiRISE Team (2 November 2023)

Acquisition date
28 September 2023

Local Mars time
15:39

Latitude (centered)
-9.818°

Longitude (East)
35.984°

Spacecraft altitude
261.4 km (162.4 miles)

Original image scale range
26.4 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~79 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
7.7°

Phase angle
68.2°

Solar incidence angle
62°, with the Sun about 28° above the horizon

Solar longitude
125.3°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 35.4°

JPEG
Black and white
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   (309MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (122MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (159MB)
non-map           (282MB)

IRB color
map projected (36MB)
non-map           (102MB)

Merged IRB
map projected (82MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected (80MB)

RGB color
non map           (98MB)

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

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:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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.