Sacra Fossae

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The right angle intersection of the depressions in this VIS image is one of the graben that form Sacra Fossae. The fossae are located on Sacra Mensa, near the beginning of Kasei Valles. Graben are depressions caused by parallel faults where a block of material drops down along the fault face.

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Context

Image ID: 
V72803012 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
23.2339
290.007
72803
2018-05-13 19:26
Thu, 2018-08-16
VIS
1024 pixels (19 km)
3648 pixels (67 km)
0.018468 km/pixel
0.0190979 km/pixel

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