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Hebes Chasma, a trough in the Grand Canyon of Mars
28 March 2008
| Hebes Chasma is an enclosed trough, almost 8000 m deep, in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | |  |  | |
| | | | | The region is a trough situated in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The geographic coordinates are approximately 1° south and 282° east.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: FU Berlin/ MOLA | | | | |
| | | | | This is an ortho-image of Hebes Chasma, a trough in the Grand Canyon of Mars. 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.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | Perspective view of Hebes Chasma obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. The HRSC obtained image data on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | Perspective view of Hebes Chasma obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. The HRSC obtained image data on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | Perspective view of Hebes Chasma obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. The HRSC obtained image data on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | False-colour nadir view of Hebes Chasma. The region is an enclosed trough situated in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | Nadir view of Hebes Chasma. The region is an enclosed trough situated in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | 3D (anaglyph) image of Hebes Chasma. The region is an enclosed trough situated in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
The anaglyph image was calculated from the nadir and one stereo channel, stereoscopic glasses are required to view it.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | Annotated nadir view of Hebes Chasma.
The region is an enclosed trough situated in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express studied the area providing new pictorial clues to its history.
Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1° south and 282° east. Image data was obtained on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel.
The region is an enclosed, almost 8 km-deep trough in the most northern part of Valles Marineris, the 3000-km long “Grand Canyon of Mars”.
The steep flanks of the trough (1) show branched incisions and small veins of rock. Below the flanks, run-off and material from larger landslides is visible (2).
A flat-topped mountain is located in the centre of Hebes Chasma (3). It reaches 8000 m above the graben floor and rises to almost the same height as the plains surrounding the trough.
Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
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