Sirenum Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The linear depression in the center of this VIS image is a graben - a fault bounded block of material. The graben crosses the crater and ejecta in the middle of the image, indicating that the graben formed after the impact that created the crater.

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Context

Image ID:

V56477006 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -36.522

Longitude: 193.781

Orbit Number: 56477

Captured: 2014-09-07 01:28

Posted to Web: Tue, 2014-10-21

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017212 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017337 km/pixel

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