PIA20471: Colorful Hargraves


Colorful Hargraves

Caption:

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Hargraves Crater is located on the northwestern margin of Isidis Basin, a region that hosts many proposed future Mars landing sites such as nearby Jezero Crater and the Nili Fossae trough.

This image covers the ejecta along the southern margin of Hargraves and shows an impressive variety of rock types, as indicated by the range in color diversity .

Background Info:

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Instrument Host Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Host Type Orbiter
Instrument High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Crater, Map
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2016-02-24
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20471
Identifier PIA20471