Very Fresh Impact Crater Superposing a Wrinkle Ridge in Hesperia Planum
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Very Fresh Impact Crater Superposing a Wrinkle Ridge in Hesperia Planum
ESP_025237_1600  Science Theme: Impact Processes
The ridge captured in this HiRISE image is called a wrinkle ridge. This wrinkle ridge is located in Hesperia Planum, a region of over two million square kilometers (over 770,000 square miles) in the southern highlands of Mars. It is located northwest of the Hellas basin and adjacent to Tyrrhena Patera and contains abundant orthogonal and intersecting wrinkle ridges.

Wrinkle ridges are long, winding topographic highs and are often characterized by a broad arch with superposed narrow asymmetric ridges. These features have also been identified on the Moon, Mercury, and Venus. Their origin is attributed to horizontal compression or shortening of the crust due to faulting and folding. They commonly have asymmetrical cross sectional profiles and an offset in elevation on either side of the ridge.

Superposing or located on top of the wrinkle ridge, is a very fresh impact crater. We can tell that this crater is fresh because of its relatively sharp or crisp rim and unmodified shape. If you look closely, you can see faint rays of relatively fine material, boulders, and smaller secondary craters radiating from the crater and superposing the wrinkle ridge and older surrounding craters.



Written by: Maria Banks  (20 December 2011)
 
Acquisition date
14 December 2011

Local Mars time
14:50

Latitude (centered)
-19.735°

Longitude (East)
114.877°

Spacecraft altitude
256.2 km (159.3 miles)

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25.7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~77 cm across are resolved

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Emission angle
4.0°

Phase angle
58.7°

Solar incidence angle
56°, with the Sun about 34° above the horizon

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43.4°, Northern Spring

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Sub-solar azimuth:  43.8°
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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.