Monitoring a New Impact Site in Fortuna Fossae
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Monitoring a New Impact Site in Fortuna Fossae
ESP_029583_1825  Science Theme: Impact Processes
This impact site is located on the floor of a large fracture within Fortuna Fossae. This site formed sometime between September 2005 and May 2008 and consists of five distinct craters each displaying individual dark-toned ejecta patterns.

The resulting craters indicate that the impactor broke up into five parts prior to its collision with the surface. Craters continue to form on Mars today and repeat imaging of these recent impacts—especially in the color portion--provides information about how impact features change with time.



Written by: Ginny Gulick  (12 December 2012)
 
Acquisition date
17 November 2012

Local Mars time
15:33

Latitude (centered)
2.376°

Longitude (East)
266.727°

Spacecraft altitude
264.5 km (164.4 miles)

Original image scale range
26.5 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~79 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
3.1°

Phase angle
58.0°

Solar incidence angle
55°, with the Sun about 35° above the horizon

Solar longitude
208.7°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  349.1°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (228MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (175MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (111MB)
non-map           (121MB)

IRB color
map projected  (50MB)
non-map           (153MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (71MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (67MB)

RGB color
non map           (150MB)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

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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.