Thermal Modeling of Oxia Planum: Thermophysical Characterization of the Dark Resistant Unit (DRU) in the Germania Lacus

Figure 2

Left panel: portion of Germania Lacus topography at 18.2°N and 335.5°E. The image is produced by the HiRISE data, instrument onboard MRO [26]. Right panel: geometry adopted in our modeling (area of 2 km × 0.6 km). On the surface, we selected five “probes” on which we calculated the surface temperature: two points on the left crater (“crater 1A” and “crater 1B”), two points on the right crater (“crater 2A” and “crater 2B”), and a point on the flat region (“Flat”).