Nili Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Nili Fossae is a large band of parallel graben located to the northeast of Syrtis Major. The graben in this VIS image were formed by tectonic activity, with faulting that creates the linear depression.

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Context

Latitude: 23.3115

Longitude: 78.6126

Orbit Number: 64105

Captured: 2016-05-27 05:24

Posted to Web: Wed, 2016-07-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018581 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0186718 km/pixel

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