Claritas Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The linear depressions in this VIS image are some of the numerous graben that make up Claritas Fossae. Graben form when two faults cause a block of material to be dropped to a lower elevation.

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Context

Image ID:

V65197009 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -35.7709

Longitude: 251.553

Orbit Number: 65197

Captured: 2016-08-25 03:51

Posted to Web: Wed, 2016-10-05

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034187 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0344206 km/pixel

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