Acquisition date22 August 2008
Local Mars time15:20
Latitude (centered)42.412°
Longitude (East)48.135°
Spacecraft altitude295.5 km (183.6 miles)
Original image scale range59.1 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~177 cm across are resolved
Map projected scale50 cm/pixel and North is up
Map projectionEquirectangular
Emission angle0.4°
Phase angle46.0°
Solar incidence angle46°, with the Sun about 44° above the horizon
Solar longitude116.4°, Northern Summer
For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 356.6°
JPEGBlack 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 JP2Black and white
map-projected (854MB) IRB color
map-projected (376MB) JP2 EXTRASBlack and white
map-projected (466MB) non-map (391MB) IRB color
map projected (128MB) non-map (293MB) Merged IRB
map projected (764MB) Merged RGB
map-projected (745MB) RGB color
non map (292MB)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONB&W label Color label Merged IRB label Merged RGB label EDR products HiView NBIRB: 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
USAGE POLICYAll of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage
by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
POSTSCRIPTNASA’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.