Landslide Surface

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This landslide deposit in Melas Chasma is so large that a single THEMIS VIS image can cover only a portion of the deposit. This image clearly shows the sub-radial grooves typical of the surface of landslides on Mars.

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Context

Image ID:

V26088002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -11.7625

Longitude: 292.536

Orbit Number: 26088

Captured: 2007-11-01 00:48

Posted to Web: Mon, 2008-02-04

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017389 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017516 km/pixel

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