Arsia Mons Flank

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows the eastern flank of Arsia Mons. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the Tharsis volcanoes. It is 270 miles (450km) in diameter, almost 12 miles (20km) high, and the summit caldera is 72 miles (120km) wide. For comparison, the tallest volcano on Earth is Mauna Kea. From its base on the sea floor, Mauna Kea measures only 10.2 km high (6.3 mi).

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Context

Latitude: -9.37842

Longitude: 241.669

Orbit Number: 101274

Captured: 2024-10-13 03:40

Posted to Web: Tue, 2025-05-13

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (252 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.066693 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0673635 km/pixel

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