HiRISE | Ice Block Avalanche (ESP_054663

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Ice Block Avalanche
ESP_054663_2650 Science Theme: Polar Geology

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HiRISE has been re-imaging regions first photographed in 2006 through 2007, six Mars years ago. This long baseline allows us to see large, rare changes as well as many smaller changes.

One of the most actively changing areas on Mars are the steep edges of the North Polar layered deposits. This image shows many new ice blocks compared to an earlier image in December 2006. An animation shows one example, where a section of ice cliff collapsed. The older image (acquired in bin-2 mode) is not as sharp as the newer one.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (audio: Tre Gibbs) (25 June 2018)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_063366_2650.

Acquisition date
25 March 2018

Local Mars time
13:07

Latitude (centered)
85.141°

Longitude (East)
236.948°

Spacecraft altitude
318.5 km (198.0 miles)

Original image scale range
31.9 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~96 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel

Map projection
Polarstereographic

Emission angle
0.1°

Phase angle
72.8°

Solar incidence angle
73°, with the Sun about 17° above the horizon

Solar longitude
149.0°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth: 125°
Sub-solar azimuth: 320.4°

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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.