ESAESA ScienceMars Express
   
Europe goes to Mars
About Mars Express
About Mars
Meet the team
Multimedia
VideoTalkMars Express imagesMars Express videosHRSC videosAnimation in 11 languagesDownload wallpapersDownload screensavers3D Flash 'model'Make a model
Services
Comments Bookmark and Share
 
 
 
 
Article Images
'Hourglass'-shaped crater - new video and perspectives
 
17 March 2006

Back to article
'Hourglass' crater - Perspective view
Download:
  HI-RES JPEG (Size: 10 148 kb)  HI-RES TIFF (Size: 22 769 kb)
This image was acquired by ESA's Mars Express during orbit 451 from an altitude of 590 kilometres with an original resolution of 29 metres per pixel.

The unusual 'hourglass'-shaped structure, seen here at the top of the image, is located in the southern-hemisphere highland terrain of Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

 
 
Back to article
Map showing location of craters in context
Download:
  HI-RES JPG (Size: 1185 KB)
A map showing these features in context, located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East.

Credits: FU Berlin/MOLANEW
 
 
Back to article
Download:
  HI-RES MOV (Size: 1310 Kb)
This animation, made up of images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows an unusual 'rock glacier' in the eastern Hellas region.

This unusual ‘hourglass’-shaped structure with flow features, most likely formed by glaciers or ‘block’ glaciers, is located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)/RSS

 
 
Back to article
'Hourglass' crater - Perspective view
Download:
  HI-RES JPEG (Size: 10 102 kb)  HI-RES TIFF (Size: 21 183 kb)
This image was acquired by ESA's Mars Express during orbit 451 from an altitude of 590 kilometres with an original resolution of 29 metres per pixel.

The unusual 'hourglass'-shaped structure, seen here in the background, is located in the southern-hemisphere highland terrain of Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

 
 
Back to article
Download:
  HI-RES MOV (Size: 175 000 kb)
This animation, made of black and white images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows an unusual 'rock glacier' in the eastern Hellas region.

This unusual ‘hourglass’-shaped structure with flow features, most likely formed by glaciers or ‘block’ glaciers, is located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

 


Mars Express image browser
Recent images
Lava tubes on Pavonis MonsExtensional tectonics in Tempe TerraNanedi Valles system on Mars'Happy face' crater on MarsThe Libya Montes valley on MarsEastern scarp of Olympus MonsAusonia Mensa remnant massifPits and tectonic grabens in Phlegethon CatenaClaritas Fossae region of MarsSulphate deposits in Juventae Chasma‘Butterfly’ impact crater in Hesperia PlanumFly over the Chasma Boreale at Martian north poleThe Biblis Patera volcano
More information
High Resolution Stereo CameraBehind the lens...
 
 
 
   Copyright 2000 - 2010 © European Space Agency. All rights reserved.