Colorful Impact Ejecta in Ladon Valles
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Colorful Impact Ejecta in Ladon Valles
ESP_058565_1620  Science Theme: Impact Processes
This image covers the western portion of a well-preserved (recent) impact crater in Ladon Basin. Ladon is filled by diverse materials including chemically-altered sediments and unaltered lava, so the impact event ejected and deposited a wide range of elements.

This image is the first of a pair of images for stereo coverage, so check out the stereo anaglyph when completed.

Written by: Alfred McEwen  (4 March 2019)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_067282_1620.
 
Acquisition date
23 January 2019

Local Mars time
14:03

Latitude (centered)
-17.713°

Longitude (East)
328.379°

Spacecraft altitude
261.4 km (162.4 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
2.4°

Phase angle
32.5°

Solar incidence angle
30°, with the Sun about 60° above the horizon

Solar longitude
329.2°, Northern Winter

For non-map projected images
North azimuth:  96°
Sub-solar azimuth:  11.4°
JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (449MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (238MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected  (272MB)
non-map           (267MB)

IRB color
map projected  (133MB)
non-map           (280MB)

Merged IRB
map projected  (501MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected  (445MB)

RGB color
non map           (246MB)
ANAGLYPHS
Map-projected, reduced-resolution
Full resolution JP2 download
Anaglyph details page

BONUS
4K (TIFF)
8K (TIFF)
10K (TIFF)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

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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.