Alba Patera

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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The ancient collapsed volcano, Alba Patera, is surrounded by graben and collapse features termed catenae. The 'string-of-pearls' appearance of the catenae is caused by collapse controlled by the fractures at the margins.

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Context

Image ID:

V28946007 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 35.8617

Longitude: 258.084

Orbit Number: 28946

Captured: 2008-06-23 10:32

Posted to Web: Tue, 2008-08-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018644 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.01878 km/pixel

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