Exposing the Rock in Impact Craters
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Exposing the Rock in Impact Craters
ESP_057866_1670  Science Theme: 
In this complex crater (about 44-kilometers in diameter), we see bedrock in several locations from different depths in the crust. The central uplift exposes large fragments of green-toned bedrock that possibly originated from several kilometers beneath the surface.

To the south of the crater, we see more of this bedrock along with material that was excavated and thrown out after the impact. In craters of this size, the rim is unstable and collapses inwards forming terraces, which occasionally exposes more bedrock that would have originated from close to the surface than the rocks exposed within the uplift itself. Central uplifts have better exposures of bedrock, but in this example the terraces steal the show, displaying beautiful green- and light-toned bedrock at multiple locations.



Written by: Eric Pilles and Livio Tornabene (audio: Tre Gibbs)  (4 February 2019)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_057932_1670.
 
Acquisition date
30 November 2018

Local Mars time
14:10

Latitude (centered)
-12.944°

Longitude (East)
331.358°

Spacecraft altitude
261.8 km (162.7 miles)

Original image scale range
53.4 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~160 cm across are resolved

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50 cm/pixel and North is up

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Equirectangular

Emission angle
10.4°

Phase angle
42.5°

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

Solar longitude
297.8°, Northern Winter

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North azimuth:  97°
Sub-solar azimuth:  344.6°
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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.