Icaria Fossae

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel-like features in this VIS image are tectonic graben. These graben are called Icaria Fossae and are located in Terra Sirenum. Graben are created in regions of extensional tectonic stress, where the bedrock is faulted and pulled apart, allowing linear sections of the surface to drop downward along paired faults.

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Context

Image ID: 
V81751010 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-46.5369
236.614
81751
2020-05-19 16:24
Fri, 2020-07-24
VIS
512 pixels (17 km)
1824 pixels (61 km)
0.033924 km/pixel
0.0341122 km/pixel

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