HiRISE | Water-Bearing Rocks in Noctis Labyrinthus (ESP_036598

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Water-Bearing Rocks in Noctis Labyrinthus
ESP_036598_1735 Science Theme: Sedimentary/Layering Processes

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The bright rocks in this image have minerals that contain water. These water-bearing minerals are found using the companion instrument on the MRO spacecraft called CRISM.

By combining the spectral data from the CRISM instrument with the high resolution visible images taken by HiRISE, scientists are able to speculate how water deposited and/or altered these rocks.

Many of the depressions in Noctis Labyrinthus contain water-bearing minerals, suggesting that water was available and persistent in this region during the Late Hesperian to Amazonian epochs on Mars, a time when the climate is believed to have been dry and cold like we see today.

Written by: Cathy Weitz (narration: Tre Gibbs) (30 July 2014)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_036743_1735.

Acquisition date
18 May 2014

Local Mars time
15:34

Latitude (centered)
-6.640°

Longitude (East)
267.062°

Spacecraft altitude
261.9 km (162.8 miles)

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

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25 cm/pixel and North is up

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Emission angle
1.0°

Phase angle
57.7°

Solar incidence angle
58°, with the Sun about 32° above the horizon

Solar longitude
132.3°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 32.0°

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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.