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Promethei Terra, southern highlands of Mars

12 October 2004

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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra.

It was taken during orbit 368 on 5 May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows a close-up view of a crater in the Promethei Terra region, east of the Hellas Planitia impact basin. The smooth surface is caused by a layer of dust or volcanic ash that is up to several tens of metres thick. The numerous dark lines to the north-west of this crater are ‘dust devil’ tracks.

This colour perspective view was calculated from the digital terrain model derived from the stereo channels.

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

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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra.

It was taken during orbit 368 on 5 May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows a large impact crater in the Promethei Terra region, east of the Hellas Planitia impact basin. The crater is 32 kilometres wide and up to 1200 metres deep.

This colour image has been processed using the nadir (vertical view) and three colour channels.

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

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Martian crater and dunes - Promethei Terra

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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra.

It was taken during orbit 368 on 5 May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows a close-up view of the rim of the southern crater. The smooth surface is caused by a layer of dust or volcanic ash that is up to several tens of metres thick. This layer has covered all landforms, and even young impact craters have lost their contours due to in-fill and collapse of their fragile crater walls.

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

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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra.

It was taken during orbit 368 on 5 May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows smaller impact craters and dune fields around and within them, to the north of the large crater.

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

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Impact crater in Promethei Terra , black and white

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This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra.

It was taken during orbit 368 on 5 May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows an area in the Promethei Terra region, east of the Hellas Planitia impact basin. The smooth surface is caused by a layer of dust or volcanic ash that is up to several tens of metres thick.

The large impact crater in the southern part of the image is 32 kilometres wide and up to 1200 metres deep.

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

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HI-RES JPEG (Size: 1914 kb)

This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a part of the southern highlands of Mars, called Promethei Terra. It was taken during orbit 368 in May 2004 with a ground resolution of approximately 14 metres per pixel. The displayed region is centred around longitude 118° East and latitude 42° South.

It shows an area in the Promethei Terra region, east of the Hellas Planitia impact basin. The smooth surface is caused by a layer of dust or volcanic ash that is up to several tens of metres thick.

This 3D anaglyph image has been created from the nadir and one stereo channel.

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

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