Shalbatana Vallis

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a portion of Shalbatana Vallis. Located in Xanthe Terra, Shalbatana Vallis is an outflow channel carved by massive floods of escaping groundwater whose source lies far to the south of this image. Shalbatana Vallis is over 1300 km long (808 miles). This channel, and all others in this region, drain into Chryse Planitia.

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Context

Latitude: 3.32953

Longitude: 316.445

Orbit Number: 94913

Captured: 2023-05-08 10:33

Posted to Web: Tue, 2023-11-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (273 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.0722 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0731362 km/pixel

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