A Sea of Lava

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Islands of older high-standing terrain rise above a sea of relatively young, platy lava flows between two of the largest volcanoes in the solar system.

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Context

Image ID:

V04250003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 24.1462

Longitude: 192.048

Orbit Number: 4250

Captured: 2002-11-29 04:22

Posted to Web: Fri, 2002-12-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01832 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018453 km/pixel

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