Shalbatana Vallis

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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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: 6.47506

Longitude: 317.532

Orbit Number: 95175

Captured: 2023-05-30 00:19

Posted to Web: Wed, 2023-12-27

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036161 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0368435 km/pixel

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