PIA25586: Flyover of Mars Impact Using HiRISE Data (Animation)
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Spacecraft:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Instrument:  HiRISE
 Product Size:  1200 x 674 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  University of Arizona
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25586.tif (2.057 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25586.jpg (69.31 kB)

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This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that's surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The impact occurred on Dec. 24, 2021.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2022-10-27