Recent Landslide in Zunil Crater
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Recent Landslide in Zunil Crater
PSP_001764_1880  Science Theme: Impact Processes
This color image shows a portion of the Southeast inner wall of Zunil, a geologically recent (less than about 10 million years old) well-preserved 10-kilometer impact crater.

The color and albedo patterns indicate that a landslide occurred here very recently--too recently to have been re-covered by dust. The landslide could have been triggered by a Marsquake or a small impact event.

Monitoring Mars for changes such as this will help us to better understand active processes. The color image has north down, which also places downhill down and helps us to interpret the topography. However, we are in fact looking down from directly above the crater.

Written by: Alfred McEwen  (4 June 2007)

This is a stereo pair with PSP_002252_1880.
 
Acquisition date
11 December 2006

Local Mars time
15:30

Latitude (centered)
7.706°

Longitude (East)
166.233°

Spacecraft altitude
275.3 km (171.1 miles)

Original image scale range
28.1 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~84 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
11.4°

Phase angle
62.8°

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

Solar longitude
149.0°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  15.8°
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POSTSCRIPT
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