Olympica Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a small portion of Olympica Fossae. Olympica Fossae is located on volcanic plains between Alba Mons and Olympus Mons. The linear margins and uniform width are controlled by faulting; this feature is called a graben.

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Context

Image ID:

V61317007 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 26.0058

Longitude: 248.318

Orbit Number: 61317

Captured: 2015-10-10 14:31

Posted to Web: Fri, 2015-12-11

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018351 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018675 km/pixel

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