HiRISE | Incipient Pit Crater in the Arsia Chasmata (ESP_011756

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Incipient Pit Crater in the Arsia Chasmata
ESP_011756_1735 Science Theme: Tectonic Processes

This is a stereo pair with PSP_005414_1735.

Acquisition date
28 January 2009

Local Mars time
15:44

Latitude (centered)
-6.518°

Longitude (East)
240.040°

Spacecraft altitude
252.5 km (156.9 miles)

Original image scale range
27.1 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~81 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
22.2°

Phase angle
77.7°

Solar incidence angle
56°, with the Sun about 34° above the horizon

Solar longitude
199.6°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 98°
Sub-solar azimuth: 359.5°

JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (1040MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (545MB)
non-map           (511MB)

ANAGLYPHS
Map-projected, reduced-resolution
Full resolution JP2 download
Anaglyph details page

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
EDR products
HiView

NB
Black & white is 5 km across
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images
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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.