HiRISE | The Floor of Beer Crater (ESP_025136

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The Floor of Beer Crater
ESP_025136_1650 Science Theme: Landscape Evolution

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This crater was named after German astronomer Wilhelm Beer. It is an ancient crater more than 100 kilometers across, located south of Meridiani Planum.

A full-resolution color sample shows fractured bedrock with dark sand filling low areas. The circular rocky features are probably eroded impact craters and the thin linear features are windblown deposits.

The aeolian (wind) erosion and modification of this ancient surface make it difficult to deduce how the rocks were initially emplaced, but the channeled rims suggest that these could be alluvial fans: deposits carried by flowing water (probably not beer).

Written by: Alfred McEwen (9 December 2011)

Acquisition date
07 December 2011

Local Mars time
14:48

Latitude (centered)
-14.814°

Longitude (East)
351.937°

Spacecraft altitude
264.0 km (164.1 miles)

Original image scale range
52.8 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~158 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.2°

Phase angle
51.7°

Solar incidence angle
52°, with the Sun about 38° above the horizon

Solar longitude
39.8°, Northern Spring

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 40.9°

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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.