Nilokeras Fossa

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows parallel sets of depressions. These are tectonic graben formed when a block of material is down dropped between paired faults. Nilokeras Fossa is located on the margin of Kasei Valles.

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Context

Latitude: 24.5752

Longitude: 302.591

Orbit Number: 63224

Captured: 2016-03-15 15:52

Posted to Web: Fri, 2016-05-27

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018692 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0188988 km/pixel

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