Mars, The Moon & More
MRO / HiRISE : ESP_060698_2220_RGB (With Cropped Detail)
This image shows a 45-meter-diameter crater that formed sometime between October 2010 and May 2012 in so-called “brain” terrain on Mars. HiRISE has been monitoring this crater to look for changes in the bright icy material exposed in the crater wall and some of the ejecta blocks.
This material is interpreted as water ice because its extent changes with time, consistent with slow sublimation caused by solar heating.
(Sublimation is the process when a solid converts directly into a gaseous state.)
www.uahirise.org/ESP_060698_2220
Source and original data credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Processed JP2, Colour Adjustments, Sharpening and Noise Reduction all done with Photoshop CC2017 by myself (N. Spence)
www.gigapan.com/gigapans/219098
MRO / HiRISE : ESP_060698_2220_RGB (With Cropped Detail)
This image shows a 45-meter-diameter crater that formed sometime between October 2010 and May 2012 in so-called “brain” terrain on Mars. HiRISE has been monitoring this crater to look for changes in the bright icy material exposed in the crater wall and some of the ejecta blocks.
This material is interpreted as water ice because its extent changes with time, consistent with slow sublimation caused by solar heating.
(Sublimation is the process when a solid converts directly into a gaseous state.)
www.uahirise.org/ESP_060698_2220
Source and original data credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Processed JP2, Colour Adjustments, Sharpening and Noise Reduction all done with Photoshop CC2017 by myself (N. Spence)
www.gigapan.com/gigapans/219098