Crater with Surrounding Bench in Sinus Meridiani
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Crater with Surrounding Bench in Sinus Meridiani
ESP_023382_1845  Science Theme: Sedimentary/Layering Processes
This image is located within Northern Sinus Meridiani, a region of ridged terrains and extensive stratigraphic layering.

Originally identified in a Mars Orbiter Camera image (MOC), this 10 kilometer (approximately 6 miles) diameter crater is surrounded by a prominent bench. As this HiRISE image shows, there is extensive layering in the upper cap units.

The bench formed because these layered surface units are eroding at a faster rate than the more resistant underlying materials that comprise the rest of the crater.



Written by: Ginny Gulick  (4 October 2011)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_023593_1845.
 
Acquisition date
23 July 2011

Local Mars time
14:07

Latitude (centered)
4.381°

Longitude (East)
356.587°

Spacecraft altitude
272.5 km (169.3 miles)

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

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
3.2°

Phase angle
32.3°

Solar incidence angle
35°, with the Sun about 55° above the horizon

Solar longitude
332.8°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  338.9°
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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.