Becoming Chaos

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is located near Hydraotes Chaos. The linear depressions in the region appear to be the start of valley formation that are the first part of chaos creation. It is thought that removal of subsurface ice/water drives the formation of chaos.

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Context

Image ID:

V88686004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 1.32181

Longitude: 322.473

Orbit Number: 88686

Captured: 2021-12-11 17:03

Posted to Web: Mon, 2022-03-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.035821 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0361686 km/pixel

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