{"id":763756,"date":"2023-08-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=763756"},"modified":"2023-08-23T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:00:00","slug":"perspective-view-of-lycus-sulci-and-yelwa-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=763756","title":{"rendered":"Perspective view of Lycus Sulci and Yelwa Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perspective_view_of_Lycus_Sulci_and_Yelwa_Crater_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This oblique perspective view of Lycus Sulci and Yelwa Crater on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_Express_orbiter_instruments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High Resolution Stereo Camera<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s Mars Express<\/a>. It shows the large 8-km-wide Yelwa Crater in the background, while the wrinkled terrain of Lycus Sulci dominates the foreground. These features lie on the edge of the \u2018aureole\u2019 of Mars&#8217;s largest volcano, Olympus Mons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Landslides_at_the_foot_of_Olympus_Mons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Image description: This tan-coloured patch of Mars&#8217;s surface is split visually in two on the diagonal from lower left to upper right: the upper half is smooth and features a single impact crater (Yelwa Crater), while the bottom half is wrinkled, ridged, textured and at higher relief. This textured ground is Lycus Sulci, on the aureole of Olympus Mons.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2023\/08\/Perspective_view_of_Lycus_Sulci_and_Yelwa_Crater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Perspective view of Lycus Sulci and Yelwa Crater<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This oblique perspective view of Lycus Sulci and Yelwa Crater on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763757,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763756","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\/763756","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/763757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}