Wednesday, May 21, 2008

keep forgetting...

I keep forgetting to post a picture. Since I'm already at work, I'll post the picture I'll be staring at for the next few days while I'm crater hunting. It's from HiRISE, which you can check out at www.hirise.lpl.arizona.edu 


Science details which you may or may not care about:

-Western rim of impact crater on Elysium Planitia (plain on the Tharsis Rise - highlands of Mars near Olympus Mons and other big volcanoes)
-the largest rayed crater known on Mars, not sure how big but maybe close to 50 km?
-doesn't have a name yet, but is tentatively called Flagstaff
-very nicely defined impact ejecta
 


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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

keep forgetting...

I keep forgetting to post a picture. Since I'm already at work, I'll post the picture I'll be staring at for the next few days while I'm crater hunting. It's from HiRISE, which you can check out at www.hirise.lpl.arizona.edu 


Science details which you may or may not care about:

-Western rim of impact crater on Elysium Planitia (plain on the Tharsis Rise - highlands of Mars near Olympus Mons and other big volcanoes)
-the largest rayed crater known on Mars, not sure how big but maybe close to 50 km?
-doesn't have a name yet, but is tentatively called Flagstaff
-very nicely defined impact ejecta
 


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