Ascraeus Mons Flank

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's image shows the eastern flank of Ascraeus Mons. Several tectonic fractures and collapse features, as well as lava flows, are visible in the image. Ascraeus Mons is the northernmost of the three aligned Tharsis volcanoes and is the tallest at 18 km (11 miles).

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Context

Latitude: 11.0537

Longitude: 257.947

Orbit Number: 85868

Captured: 2021-04-23 16:21

Posted to Web: Mon, 2021-09-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (265 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.07008 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0701117 km/pixel

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