May 12, 2012
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF
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The Sun is low in the Martian Sky (as a matter of fact - and as you can easily verify, just by checking the Solar Incidence Angle - the Sun, at the time that this picture was taken, was only 14° above the Local Horizon), but it is still shining full on the Southern Walls of this Unnamed Southern Impact Crater, while one half of it (from the Northern Edge and until about one half of its Floor - as well as the area beyond its Southern Rim) has already been covered by very dark and deep shadows. On the upper portion of its Southern Rim, where the Sunlight seems to shine stronger and brighter, a series of exposed Layers - showing a variety of slightly different colors - can be admired. Mars Local Time: 15:13 (Early Afternoon) This frame has been colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.
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