Crater Ejecta

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image contains a relatively young crater and its ejecta. Layering in the ejecta is visible and relates to the shock waves from the impact. This unnamed crater is located in Arabia Terra.

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Context

Image ID:

V45564025 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 41.5547

Longitude: 4.95297

Orbit Number: 45564

Captured: 2012-03-22 23:41

Posted to Web: Tue, 2012-06-05

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (69 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018985 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019123 km/pixel

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