Planet Mars: Aram Chaos | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Aram Chaos is terrain that is located within a massive 280 kilometer-diameter crater. It consists of darker volcanic rocks that were disrupted as a result of water and/or magma withdrawal in the subsurface. Some of the materials made up of different kinds of sulfates that formed when water filled the crater. Aram Chaos lies at the eastern end of the large canyon Valles Marineris and close to Ares Vallis. Various geological processes have reduced it to a circular area of chaotic terrain.
This clip uses the enhanced color red-green-blue filter of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. Blue in enhanced color images often represents basalt, indicating a volcanic origin.
This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. Image is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and the spacecraft altitude was 271 km (168 mi).
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured these images.
MRO is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Image Acquisition Date:
April 19, 2022
Local Mars time:
15:46
Latitude (centered):
2.222°
Longitude (East):
339.904°
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Duration: 3 minutes
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