Chaos

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows a region of chaos terrain southeast of Eos Chasma. Chaos terrain is typified by regions of blocky, often steep sided, mesas interspersed with deep valleys. With time and erosion the valleys widen and the mesas become smaller. It has been proposed that a catastrophic outflow of subsurface water creates the chaos.

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Context

Latitude: -15.9809

Longitude: 319.212

Orbit Number: 100847

Captured: 2024-09-07 23:54

Posted to Web: Mon, 2025-03-31

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (266 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.070177 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0712678 km/pixel

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