{ "title": "Dune Change Detection West of Lowell Crater", "authors": "HiRISE", "metadata": { "thumbnailURL": "https://static.uahirise.org/anews/2020-03-02/ESP_060229_1260-2.jpg", "excerpt": "A Mars Orbiter Camera image of this area in 2003 provides a long baseline to newer HiRISE images to track changes over time." }, "version": "1.5", "identifier": "ESP_060229_1260", "language": "en", "layout": { "columns": 10, "width": 1024, "margin": 85, "gutter": 20 }, "documentStyle": { "backgroundColor": "#faf7f2" }, "components": [ { "role": "heading1", "layout": "heading1Layout", "text": "HiPOD: 2 MARCH 2020" }, { "role": "divider", "layout": "bigDividerLayout", "stroke": { "width": 3, "color": "#8c2028" } }, { "role": "title", "layout": "halfMarginBelowLayout", "text": "Dune Change Detection West of Lowell Crater" }, { "role": "photo", "layout": "fullBleedLayout", "caption": "Less than 5 km across. (NASA/JPL/UArizona)", "URL": "https://static.uahirise.org/anews/2020-03-02/ESP_060229_1260.jpg" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "layout": "hipodMarginLayout", "text": "
A Mars Orbiter Camera image of this area in 2003 provides a long baseline to newer HiRISE images so we can build up global averages of the wind-blown environment. In 15 years, these dunes should have moved noticeably between images. Our objective is track any seasonal changes over time.
Lowell Crater is located in Aonia Terra, and is a good example of a well-preserved peak ring crater on Mars. It’s about 203 kilometers in diameter.
ID: ESP_060229_1260
date: 2 June 2019
altitude: 246 km
NASA/JPL/UArizona