Brain-Coral Texture on Crater Floor
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Brain-Coral Texture on Crater Floor
ESP_023649_1360  Science Theme: Glacial/Periglacial Processes
This crater floor has a hummocky texture (“brain-coral”-like), and curved structures, possibly from glacial-like flow.

What's of note is how HiRISE plans certain observations—like this one—where anywhere in the area is likely to be interesting enough for an image. This is unlike other observations where the planning needs a precisely-targeted area to capture a specific feature of interest. We call this an "NIO," or non-interactive observation.

This caption is based on the original science rationale.

Written by: HiRISE Science Team  (4 October 2011)
 
Acquisition date
13 August 2011

Local Mars time
14:19

Latitude (centered)
-43.731°

Longitude (East)
272.803°

Spacecraft altitude
249.4 km (155.0 miles)

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

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.3°

Phase angle
48.1°

Solar incidence angle
48°, with the Sun about 42° above the horizon

Solar longitude
343.9°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  45.6°
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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.