Tithonium Chasma

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows the central part of Tithonium Chasma. Tithonium Chasma is at the western end of Valles Marineris. Valles Marineris is over 4000 kilometers long, almost as wide as the United States. Tithonium Chasma is almost 810 kilometers long (499 miles), 50 kilometers wide and over 6 kilometers deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is about 175 kilometers long, 30 kilometers wide, and only 2 kilometers deep. The canyons of Valles Marineris were formed by extensive fracturing and pulling apart of the crust during the uplift of the vast Tharsis plateau.

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Context

Image ID: 
V95214003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-4.83447
273.933
95214
2023-06-02 05:19
Thu, 2023-12-28
VIS
256 pixels (18 km)
3792 pixels (267 km)
0.070644 km/pixel
0.071195 km/pixel

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