File:(4) Disrupted crater at Acheron Fossae, colour ESA210364.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(2,480 × 3,320 pixels, file size: 2.3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: Image 4 of 6. These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express, are of the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic (continental ‘plate’) activity in the past.

The images show traces of enormous stress and corresponding strain in the crust of the Red Planet. The HRSC was pointed twice at this interesting geological feature in the Acheron Fossae mountain range, during orbits 37 and 143. The feature is situated at approximately 35º-40º North and 220º-230º East, about 1000 kilometres north of the large Olympus Mons volcano. For practical use on the internet, the images have been reduced in their resolution – the data originally obtained from orbit at an altitude of 765 kilometres (orbit 37) and 1240 kilometres (orbit 143) have a resolution of 30 metres and 50 metres per pixel respectively. Images 4-6, with the large crater, 55 kilometres in diameter, were taken about 250 kilometres west of images 1-3.

They show how the rifting crosses the older impact crater with at least three alternating horsts and grabens.
Date
Source http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/05/4_Disrupted_crater_at_Acheron_Fossae_colour
Author European Space Agency
Permission
(Reusing this file)
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum),CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Title
InfoField
(4) Disrupted crater at Acheron Fossae, colour
Mission
InfoField
Mars Express
Activity
InfoField
Space Science

Licensing[edit]

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license.
Attribution: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:31, 25 May 2017Thumbnail for version as of 00:31, 25 May 20172,480 × 3,320 (2.3 MB) (talk | contribs)European Space Agency, Id 210364, http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/05/4_Disrupted_crater_at_Acheron_Fossae_colour, User:Fæ/Project_list/ESA

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata