Bonneville (crater)

00:21

The Bonneville Crater [ bɔnəvɪl -] is an impact crater on Mars with 200 m diameter. It is located within the 150 km measured crater Gusev.

Bonneville 2004 was hit by the reconnaissance vehicle Spirit, with unique images have been sent from the rover to the ground. The scientists hoped that this Martian crater is deep enough that you could find on the inner bottom bedrock. However, this hope was shattered with the first pictures from inside. The crater contained nothing more than the same rocks as outside the crater. So you moved the Spirit rover further east to the Columbia Hills. The place where the Spirit moved into its position on the crater was referred to as The Hole Point.

In the overview photo the positions of the rover Spirit, its Landers, the parachute ( parachute ), the heat shield are (Heat Shield Impact), the rear heat shield (back shell) and the posthumous lane (track) highlighted.

The rover photographed on the opposite side of him Bonnevilles the heat shield, which the lander absprengte in the Martian atmosphere as they occur. The bright white- blue glow of the sign stood out in the otherwise completely orange - red environment particularly prominent.

Is named the crater after Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric lake in the U.S. state of Utah. Many craters in the vicinity Bonnevilles were also named after various waters. So are Northern him Vanda (~ 100 m, for a ice-covered lake in Antarctica ), Baikal (~ 100 m, after Lake Baikal in Russia), Turkana (~ 150 m, after Lake Turkana in the Rift Valley ) and Huron (~ 200 m, according to the Lake Huron in North America) and west of Missoula him (after the glacial Lake Missoula in the Rocky Mountains ) and Lahontan (after the prehistoric Lake Lahontan, who was in California and Nevada), the last two were from Spirit visited.

The name of the crater has not yet been validated by the International Astronomical Union, hence the crater does not appear in the official lists and databases.

Panorama

  • Impact crater (Mars)
  • Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Mars Global Surveyor Gusev (Martian crater)
6966
de