{"id":222170,"date":"2014-11-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"7a9990ad431592eb7e5451567873ac5a"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:00:00","slug":"hellas-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222170","title":{"rendered":"Hellas Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/hellas_chaos\/15081106-1-eng-GB\/Hellas_Chaos_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHellas Chaos, in the southern central part of the giant Hellas basin, stretches roughly 200 km north\u2013south and for about 500 km in an east\u2013west direction. It shows a variety of landforms, from large impact craters containing wind-blown dunes or flat-topped mesas, to ridges and troughs with rough knobs of material protruding from the surface. The region is also dusted with carbon dioxide frost. In the right-hand portion of the image, the curved outlines of large sublimation pits are interspersed with polygonal-patterned terrain. These features are typical of \u2018periglacial\u2019 terrain, and develop as a result of contraction and relaxation during freeze\u2013thaw cycles as the seasons change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA\u2019s Mars Express on 23 January 2014 during orbit 12 785. The image is centred on 46\u00baS \/ 69\u00baE. The ground resolution is about 18 m per pixel. North is to the right and west is at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/hellas_chaos\/15081106-1-eng-GB\/Hellas_Chaos_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHellas Chaos, in the southern central part of the giant Hellas basin, stretches roughly 200 km north\u2013south and for about 500 km in an east\u2013west direction. It shows a variety of landforms, from large impact craters containing wind-blown dunes or flat-topped mesas, to ridges and troughs with rough knobs of material protruding from the surface. The region is also dusted with carbon dioxide frost. In the right-hand portion of the image, the curved outlines of large sublimation pits are interspersed with polygonal-patterned terrain. These features are typical of \u2018periglacial\u2019 terrain, and develop as a result of contraction and relaxation during freeze\u2013thaw cycles as the seasons change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA\u2019s Mars Express on 23 January 2014 during orbit 12 785. The image is centred on 46\u00baS \/ 69\u00baE. The ground resolution is about 18 m per pixel. North is to the right and west is at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}