Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
ESP_045519_1730  Science Theme: Geologic Contacts/Stratigraphy
Large impact craters rebound from the initial shock, raising deep bedrock to the surface in the central uplift of the crater.

Often this bedrock has greater compositional diversity than the surface layers, because they are from greater depths, older, jumbled, and altered, and very diverse.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (narration: Tre Gibbs)  (15 July 2016)
 
Acquisition date
12 April 2016

Local Mars time
15:11

Latitude (centered)
-6.779°

Longitude (East)
89.318°

Spacecraft altitude
260.7 km (162.0 miles)

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52.9 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~159 cm across are resolved

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50 cm/pixel and North is up

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9.2°

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60.7°

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53°, with the Sun about 37° above the horizon

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136.2°, Northern Summer

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Sub-solar azimuth:  34.2°
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