This oblique view of periodic layering in Martian sedimentary layers was
derived from three-dimensional modeling based on a stereo pair of images
taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The vertical dimension is exaggerated
by a factor of two.
It shows the regularity in repetition of layers with approximately the
same thickness. Individual layers in the area average about 10 meters (33
feet) in thickness.
The location of the imaged area is at 8 degrees north latitude, 353
degrees east longitude, inside an unnamed crater within the Arabia Terra
region.
Some of the same layers visible in the right-side half of this view are
the layers that can be seen in the center of a sample view from the
original HiRISE image of this area (see PIA11441).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space
Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the
spacecraft. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by
the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.
