Cyane Catena

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image is located on the western flank of Alba Mons. Linear faults and graben surround the volcano, intersecting and deflected around the summit. The linear depression in this image is called Cyane Catena. The term catena means a string of craters or circular depressions. The circular depressions in this image were likely formed by the collapse of the preexisting surface into a subsurface void. Cyane Catena is 204km long (126 miles).

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Context

Latitude: 36.6378

Longitude: 241.446

Orbit Number: 104056

Captured: 2025-05-30 06:57

Posted to Web: Thu, 2026-02-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.037117 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0372975 km/pixel

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