Bouncing Boulders
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Bouncing Boulders
PSP_001385_1985  Science Theme: Impact Processes
Most debris on crater walls slides straight downhill. In this HiRISE image we see examples of boulders that have bounced downhill, not necessarily vertically.

A prominent example looks like a dotted line from the top of the crater wall where the boulder took off to the crater floor where it finally came to rest.

Numerous boulders have slid partway down toward the crater floor, which is covered by sand dunes. This is actually a small crater (approximately 1 kilometer wide) within an unnamed but much larger approximately 30 kilometer crater.



Written by: Candy Hansen  (10 January 2007)
 
Acquisition date
12 November 2006

Local Mars time
15:29

Latitude (centered)
18.493°

Longitude (East)
64.971°

Spacecraft altitude
275.2 km (171.0 miles)

Original image scale range
from 27.8 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 111.3 cm/pixel (with 4 x 4 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
7.0°

Phase angle
42.8°

Solar incidence angle
50°, with the Sun about 40° above the horizon

Solar longitude
134.2°, Northern Summer

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  13.6°
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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.