HiRISE | Big Fans (ESP_054117

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Big Fans
ESP_054117_1585 Science Theme: Landscape Evolution

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Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits emerging from regions of steep topography. Alluvial fans on Mars are thought to be ancient and record past episodes of flowing water. This image shows part of one of those fans, which has been eroded.

The old stream channels now stand above the rest of the fan as ridges, mostly in the southern (bottom) part of the image. This can occur because the channel materials are more resistant to erosion; perhaps they had larger grains (gravel) or because minerals deposited from the water cemented together.

Written by: Colin Dundas (audio: Tre Gibbs) (5 March 2018)

Acquisition date
11 February 2018

Local Mars time
15:23

Latitude (centered)
-21.521°

Longitude (East)
66.928°

Spacecraft altitude
257.9 km (160.3 miles)

Original image scale range
52.4 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~157 cm across are resolved

Map projected scale
50 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.4°

Phase angle
58.8°

Solar incidence angle
65°, with the Sun about 25° above the horizon

Solar longitude
128.0°, Northern Summer

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North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 42.8°

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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.