Olympus Rupes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Olympus Rupes is the name of the large escarpment surrounding Olympus Mons. The escarpment is a cliff where there is a large elevation change over a short distance. This VIS image is located along the southeastern margin of Olympus Mons, the largest Martian volcano.

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Context

Latitude: 14.4639

Longitude: 229.509

Orbit Number: 72406

Captured: 2018-04-11 02:30

Posted to Web: Thu, 2018-07-12

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018167 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0179471 km/pixel

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