Shalbatana Vallis

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows a section of Shalbatana Vallis. Located in Xanthe Terra, Shalbatana Vallis is one of many channels that empty into Chryse Planitia. Shalbatana Vallis is an outflow channel carved by massive floods from escaping groundwater whose source lies far to the south of this image. The vallis is over 1300 km long (807 miles).

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Context

Latitude: 8.51397

Longitude: 319.159

Orbit Number: 79040

Captured: 2019-10-09 11:21

Posted to Web: Mon, 2019-11-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018285 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0178875 km/pixel

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