Lycus Sulci

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a portion of Lycus Sulci. Lycus Sulci is a low lying area of ridges and valleys found to the northwest of Olympus Mons. It is not yet understood how this feature formed or how it relates to the formation of Olympus Mons itself.

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Context

Image ID:

V93612015 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 32.6141

Longitude: 219.235

Orbit Number: 93612

Captured: 2023-01-21 08:26

Posted to Web: Fri, 2023-03-31

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (285 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.075167 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0756719 km/pixel

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