Polar Layered Deposit Slopes
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Polar Layered Deposit Slopes
ESP_039122_1080  Science Theme: Mass Wasting Processes
This image, approximately 500 by 500 meters, represents a popular monitoring site; in this case a sample of the South Polar layered deposits (SPLD).

These deposits are quite extensive and partially surround the South Polar residual cap. In this beautiful enhanced color image we see fractured bedrock partially coated in carbon dioxide frost.

Written by: Livio Tornabene, Eric Pilles, Ryan Hopkins and Kayle Hansen (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (17 December 2014)
 
Acquisition date
30 November 2014

Local Mars time
15:51

Latitude (centered)
-71.950°

Longitude (East)
143.726°

Spacecraft altitude
251.8 km (156.5 miles)

Original image scale range
25.1 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~75 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
4.1°

Phase angle
62.5°

Solar incidence angle
59°, with the Sun about 31° above the horizon

Solar longitude
243.8°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  99°
Sub-solar azimuth:  32.4°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (1090MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (565MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (718MB)
non-map           (738MB)

IRB color
map projected  (320MB)
non-map           (612MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (252MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (249MB)

RGB color
non map           (577MB)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

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All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
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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.