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River delta in Nepenthes Mensae
25 April 2008
| The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | |  |  | |
| | | | | Context map of Nepenthes Mensae, lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east on Mars.
Credits: FU Berlin/ MOLA | | | | |
| | | | | The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | This is an ortho-image of Nepenthes Mensae. The image is overlaid with elevation data from an HRSC-derived high-resolution digital terrain model (DTM).
In an ortho-image, the projecting rays are perpendicular to the plane of projection. This corrects any deformations introduced by an imaging camera. Such an image can be fitted directly on to a map.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
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Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008.
The data was acquired in the region lying at approximately 3° north and 121° east with a ground resolution of 15 m/pixel.
The southern part of the image shows a structure reminiscent of a river delta on Earth (1) whose material was eroded from a valley, about 30 km long and upto 1000 m deep (2). This formed a fan-shaped deposit at the mouth of the valley. The rim of the deposit stands roughly 300 m above the floor of the depression.
The resemblance of the structure to river deltas on Earth suggests that it was formed by a similar mechanism. Scientists believe that sediment transported by water was deposited as the flow of the water slowed down where the channel widened and met the mouth of the river.
The pictures show that the region was affected by two episodes of flooding. The first left a cone-shaped deposit, reaching far out into the lowland. The second episode formed the fan with the distinct margin. This margin could indicate the location where sediments flowed into a standing body of water or ice.
Numerous hills and flat-topped mountains visible in the central part of the depression (3) are remnants of the material that was present in the area. The material was then eroded forming the depression, leaving behind the elevations visible today.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
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