Arcuate Collapse

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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This region near the highland/lowland boundary appears to be breaking into curved-edged blocks. If one looks closely you will see that the block edges are created by arcs of collapse pits which expand until a complete margin is created.

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Context

Image ID:

V26217001 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -2.2473

Longitude: 172.321

Orbit Number: 26217

Captured: 2007-11-11 15:41

Posted to Web: Mon, 2008-01-07

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017589 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017717 km/pixel

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