Alba Mons Flank

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is located on the western flank of Alba Mons. This region is highly dissected by channels. Alba Mons is a broad volcano, surrounded by graben features created by a huge volcanic eruption followed by the collapse of the volcano into the underlying empty magma chamber.

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Context

Latitude: 44.5913

Longitude: 241.076

Orbit Number: 102203

Captured: 2024-12-28 16:40

Posted to Web: Tue, 2025-10-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (286 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.07564 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0764256 km/pixel

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