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Friday, March 08, 2024
Planet Mars: Hebes Chasma | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Planet Mars: Hebes Chasma | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This image covers a small section of Hebes Chasma. Hebes Chasma is an isolated chasma just north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. It is centered at 1 degree southern latitude and 76 degrees western longitude, just between the Martian equator and the Valles Marineris system, just east of the Tharsis region. A chasma is a deep, elongated, steep-sided depression.
Mr. K, or Yll, is a character in Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles”. This terrain would have been very difficult and lengthy to traverse in his fateful meeting with Captain Nathaniel York.
This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. Image is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 266 km (165 mi).
The image was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to study the geology and climate of Mars, to provide reconnaissance of future landing sites, and to relay data from surface missions back to Earth. It was launched on August 12, 2005, and reached Mars on March 10, 2006.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the HiRISE instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.
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