Spallanzani's Neighbor

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Along the southeast rim of the Hellas Basin, a 27 km diameter crater hosts an eroded layered deposit like many of the neighboring craters. Compared to the weirdly-shaped remnants of the deposit in the adjacent Spallanzani Crater, the layers in this image are more subdued. It is not clear why material deposited into and eroded from two craters so close together would appear so different.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V07450004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-57.5625
84.7135
7450
2003-08-19 12:41
Tue, 2003-09-09
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (61 km)
0.016986 km/pixel
0.017109 km/pixel

Downloads

PNG | JPEG (high res) | JPEG (reduced res) | PDF | TIFF