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August 18, 2012

Eroded Impact Crater with Ice in Vastitas Borealis
Eroded Impact Crater with Ice in Vastitas Borealis

Credits: NASA/JPL-University of Arizona - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF

Mars Local Time: 14:11 (early afternoon)
Coord. (centered): 62,5° North Lat. and 150,1° East Long.
Spacecraft altitude: 317,0 Km (such as about 198,1 miles)
Original image scale range: 31,7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~ 95 cm across are resolved
Map projected scale: 25 cm/pixel
Map projection: EQUIRECTANGULAR
Emission Angle: 8,0°
Phase Angle: 56,1°
Solar Incidence Angle: 61° (meaning that the Sun was about 29° above the Local Horizon at the time the picture was taken)
Solar Longitude: 14,4° (Northern Spring - Southern Fall)
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Additional process. and coloring: Lunar Explorer Italia


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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