Proposed MSL Landing Site in Miyamoto Crater
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Proposed MSL Landing Site in Miyamoto Crater
PSP_006913_1765  Science Theme: Future Exploration/Landing Sites
Miyamoto Crater is located in southwest Meridiani Planum (and southwest of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landing site). This image shows fairly smooth plains and some areas covered by wind streaks, suggesting that wind is an active process here, depositing surface material downwind in the form of streaks.

This landing site is adjacent to the hematite-bearing plains unit where the Opportunity rover sits. The CRISM instrument has detected phyllosilicates (clay minerals) at this landing site, which scientists believe to have formed in the presence of water. The MSL rover would investigate the mineral diversity here, which includes phyllosilicates and sulfates.

Written by: Jennifer Griffes  (12 March 2008)

This is a stereo pair with PSP_010196_1765.
 
Acquisition date
17 January 2008

Local Mars time
14:34

Latitude (centered)
-3.272°

Longitude (East)
352.270°

Spacecraft altitude
270.6 km (168.1 miles)

Original image scale range
27.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~82 cm across are resolved

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.4°

Phase angle
47.8°

Solar incidence angle
40°, with the Sun about 50° above the horizon

Solar longitude
18.7°, Northern Spring

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  21.8°
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