When Weather Happens: Liu Hsin Crater Ejecta
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
When Weather Happens: Liu Hsin Crater Ejecta
ESP_020158_1275  Science Theme: 
This observation was intended to be an image of Liu Hsin ejecta, but instead, haze and/or clouds were observed. At this latitude (approximately 50 degrees south), it is not entirely unexpected to get some clouds with the lighting rapidly changing and water-ice frost sublimating into the atmosphere.

Because HiRISE is primarily designed for geologic investigations of the Martian surface, HiRISE planners use images for its sister instrument MARCI to try and avoid bad weather on Mars. But just as on Earth, the weather is sometimes unpredictable.

Written by: Livio Tornaben and Kayle Hansen (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (18 February 2015)

 
Acquisition date
14 November 2010

Local Mars time
15:55

Latitude (centered)
-52.091°

Longitude (East)
184.789°

Spacecraft altitude
250.6 km (155.7 miles)

Original image scale range
50.5 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~152 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
6.4°

Phase angle
66.0°

Solar incidence angle
71°, with the Sun about 19° above the horizon

Solar longitude
180.8°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  31.9°
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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.