Small Crater within Pollack Crater Containing Light-Toned Material
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Small Crater within Pollack Crater Containing Light-Toned Material
ESP_018212_1715  Science Theme: Geologic Contacts/Stratigraphy
This observation shows a small crater in within the much larger Pollack Crater containing light-toned material. Pollack Crater is a 90-kilometer diameter impact crater first imaged by the Mariner 9 spacecraft.

This material was first observed by the THEMIS team, and there are multiple Context Camera and Mars Orbiter Camera images showing that this light-toned material may be similar to the large “White Rock” outcrop to the northwest. HiRISE has also imaged White Rock several times. In these cases, we can see how different teams can work together to get an interesting image at high resolution for further study.

Written by: HIRISE Science Team (audio by Tre Gibbs)  (21 August 2013)
 
Acquisition date
15 June 2010

Local Mars time
15:20

Latitude (centered)
-8.267°

Longitude (East)
25.247°

Spacecraft altitude
262.8 km (163.3 miles)

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26.6 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~80 cm across are resolved

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Emission angle
8.5°

Phase angle
65.2°

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

Solar longitude
104.9°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  41.2°
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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.