A Highly Disrupted Crater
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A Highly Disrupted Crater
ESP_051147_1830  Science Theme: 
This 2.5-kilometer diameter crater has been significantly altered from the usual bowl-shaped appearance we associate with craters. Material has covered significant portions of the ejecta and filled in the crater. This fill material has since been subject to erosion—like boulders weathering out of the slopes—and the crater rim is also highly irregular.

This crater is located in Elysium Planitia, an area dominated by volcanic processes. It’s likely that the crater fill material is volcanic in origin, and possible that the rim was etched by lava, either flowing into the crater or spilling over after the crater filled completely. However, there are also signs of erosion by wind, like the parallel ridges in the rim breaches and between high-standing regions of the crater fill. It’s likely that the current appearance of this crater is due to a combination of surface processes.



Written by: Nicole Baugh (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (9 October 2017)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_045319_1830.
 
Acquisition date
24 June 2017

Local Mars time
14:17

Latitude (centered)
2.983°

Longitude (East)
148.086°

Spacecraft altitude
272.4 km (169.3 miles)

Original image scale range
61.7 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~185 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
29.2°

Phase angle
63.0°

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

Solar longitude
24.3°, Northern Spring

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North azimuth:  96°
Sub-solar azimuth:  22.8°
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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.