Stop Sign Crater

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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With its rim eroded off by catastrophic floods in Tiu Vallis and its strangely angular shape, this 12 km diameter crater looks vaguely like a stop sign.

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Context

Image ID:

V05144009 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 8.5519

Longitude: 329.172

Orbit Number: 5144

Captured: 2003-02-10 18:34

Posted to Web: Wed, 2003-03-05

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01791 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018041 km/pixel

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