HiRISE | Sedimentary Fans North of Mojave Crater (ESP_038851

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Sedimentary Fans North of Mojave Crater
ESP_038851_1900 Science Theme: Fluvial Processes

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In this observation, does the morphology of these possible sedimentary fans match those found in Mojave Crater?

A high resolution image can be useful to determine systematic changes in boulder size (an indication of how much energy moved the sediment) or channel characteristics (e.g. width, depth) with distance from Mojave. Is fan stratigraphy, erosional state, and crater density consistent with Mojave as a source of the sediment?

Mojave Crater is special on Mars due to the evidence in and surrounding it that rain may have fallen there in Mars’ past. Rain is thought to have been overwhelmingly, exceedingly rare in Mars’ history, though a local rain event could have been caused by the heat of the impact that formed Mojave Crater.

Note: Mojave Crater is not pictured in this observation.

Written by: Edwin Kite & Kirby Runyon (narration: Tre Gibbs) (14 January 2015)

Acquisition date
09 November 2014

Local Mars time
15:32

Latitude (centered)
9.846°

Longitude (East)
326.769°

Spacecraft altitude
273.8 km (170.2 miles)

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

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Emission angle
0.1°

Phase angle
60.0°

Solar incidence angle
60°, with the Sun about 30° above the horizon

Solar longitude
230.4°, Northern Autumn

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 336.4°

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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.