Data from the nadir channel and one stereo channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express have been combined to produce this anaglyph 3D image, which can be viewed using stereoscopic glasses with red–green or red–blue filters.
This image shows the edge of a colossal impact crater in the southern highlands of Mars known as the Hellas basin, which extends towards the bottom of the frame. It also captures the Hellespontus Montes, a string of rocky peaks encircling part of the basin’s rim. The image is composed of data taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 13 January 2014 during orbit 12 750. The centre of the image is located at approximately 41°S/45°E. The image resolution is roughly 17 m per pixel.
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This view shows a portion of the western rim of the vast Hellas basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The crater shown in the upper left is on the periphery of the Hellas basin. The edge of the Hellas basin is traced by a string of rocky peaks known as the Hellespontus Montes, which runs roughly half way through the image from the edge of the large crater towards the right hand side of the scene. Many other interesting features can be seen: intricate valleys, dune fields and unusual deposits of dust-covered ice inside smaller craters.
The image was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 13 January 2014 (orbit 12 750). The centre of the image is located at approximately 41°S/45°E, in the southern highlands of Mars. The image resolution is roughly 17 m per pixel. North is to the right, east is up.
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This is a colour-coded topography map of a portion of the western rim of the Hellas basin. The crater shown in the upper left is on the periphery of this larger impact basin. The edge of the Hellas basin is traced by a string of rocky peaks known as the Hellespontus Montes – revealed as the red/white ridge in this topography map thanks to their height. White and red show the highest terrains, while blue and purple show the deepest.
The image is based on a digital terrain model of the region, from which the topography of the landscape has been derived. The image was created using data acquired with the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 13 January 2014 during orbit 12 750. North is to the right, east is up.
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The Hellas basin is a large impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It contains a vast plain known as the Hellas Planitia, and its western rim is enclosed by a string of rocky peaks named the Hellespontus Montes. This region was imaged by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 13 January 2014 during orbit 12 750. The smaller rectangle above outlines the region highlighted in the associated Mars Express images.
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Perspective view of Hellespontus Montes, a rocky ridge on the western rim of the vast Hellas basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
The foreground shows a close-up of a crater with a particularly interesting feature: wrinkles that form a roughly concentric pattern, with ever-smaller arcs towards the structure’s centre. This type of feature is known as ‘concentric crater fill’, and is thought to be associated with snowfall and freezing cycles in an earlier and wetter period of martian history.
Once inside the crater, the snow was trapped and soon covered by surface dust, before compacting to form ice. The number of concentric lines indicate many cycles of this process and it is possible that ice may be hidden beneath just tens of metres of surface debris in these craters.
The image was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 13 January 2014 (orbit 12 750). The centre of the associated main colour image is located at approximately 41°S/45°E.
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