Tooting Fluidized Ejecta
This HiRISE image shows one of the many lobate deposits surrounding the 28 km diameter Tooting Crater on Mars (24oN, 208oE). Deposits such as these are often attributed to the impact event interacting with water or ice within the target rocks. The direction of flow was from the bottom to the top of the image.
There are many interesting features visible in this image. Around the perimeter of the ejecta lobe is a ridge or “rampart”. Streamers of small pits radiate away from the parent crater (which lies off the bottom of the image), and these may be secondary craters. There is also a faint alignment of blocks within the lobe which may indicate laminar flow of the ejecta.
Tooting Fluidized Ejecta
This HiRISE image shows one of the many lobate deposits surrounding the 28 km diameter Tooting Crater on Mars (24oN, 208oE). Deposits such as these are often attributed to the impact event interacting with water or ice within the target rocks. The direction of flow was from the bottom to the top of the image.
There are many interesting features visible in this image. Around the perimeter of the ejecta lobe is a ridge or “rampart”. Streamers of small pits radiate away from the parent crater (which lies off the bottom of the image), and these may be secondary craters. There is also a faint alignment of blocks within the lobe which may indicate laminar flow of the ejecta.