Textured Crater Floor in the Arabia Region
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Textured Crater Floor in the Arabia Region
ESP_024870_2080  Science Theme: Geologic Contacts/Stratigraphy
Surrounding the uplifted bedrock in the center of this large crater is mottled terrain. What possibly caused this?

The floor of the crater might be the result of icy flows. Perhaps an ancient aquifer system was exposed at the time of the impact resulting in the incredible mottled floor we see now, which appears different from the uplifted central peak.

This caption is based on the original science rationale.



Written by: HiRISE Science Team (audio by Tre Gibbs)  (30 January 2013)
 
Acquisition date
16 November 2011

Local Mars time
14:31

Latitude (centered)
27.654°

Longitude (East)
48.662°

Spacecraft altitude
286.1 km (177.8 miles)

Original image scale range
28.7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~86 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
1.9°

Phase angle
40.5°

Solar incidence angle
39°, with the Sun about 51° above the horizon

Solar longitude
30.4°, Northern Spring

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  349.8°
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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.