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Fresh Crater Cluster in Elysium Planitia (EDM - False Colors)
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Image TRA_000867_1875 was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on October 3, 2006. The complete image is centered at 7,4 North Latitude and 157,3 East longitude. The range to the target site was 274,6 Km (171,6 miles).
At this distance the image scale ranges from 54,9 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) to 109,9 cm/pixel (with 4 x 4 binning).
The image has been map-projected to 50 cm/pixel and north is to the right.
The image was taken at a Local Mars Time of 3:26 PM and the scene is illuminated from the West with a solar incidence angle of 52, thus the Sun was about 38 above the horizon.
At a Solar Longitude of 115,1, the season on Mars is Northern Summer.
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