Crater Dunes Revisited
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Crater Dunes Revisited
PSP_010854_1325  Science Theme: Seasonal Processes
In the winter, these dunes in an unnamed crater east of Proctor Crater are covered with seasonal carbon dioxide frost (dry ice). In the spring, the frost gradually evaporates but lingers in protected regions. In this color image bright ice deposits in sheltered areas highlight the ripples on the dunes.

These dunes were imaged during the first year of MRO's mission. Images taken now in the second Martian spring can be compared to the previous year to study interannual variability.



Written by: Candy Hansen  (18 February 2009)
 
Acquisition date
19 November 2008

Local Mars time
15:59

Latitude (centered)
-47.184°

Longitude (East)
34.001°

Spacecraft altitude
250.7 km (155.8 miles)

Original image scale range
50.9 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~153 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.2°

Phase angle
70.3°

Solar incidence angle
77°, with the Sun about 13° above the horizon

Solar longitude
160.1°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  35.5°
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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.