Echus Chasma Margin

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image show the western margin of Echus Chasma. Echus Chasma forms the boundary between the Tharsis volcanoes to the west and Lunae Planum to the east. Located north of Valles Marineris, Echus Chasma is elongate north/south - perpendicular to Valles Marineris. Echus Chasma is the main source of the floods that formed Kasei Valles. Echus Chasma is 391km (243 miles) long.

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Context

Latitude: 0.355916

Longitude: 278.866

Orbit Number: 107156

Captured: 2026-02-09 12:06

Posted to Web: Wed, 2026-11-11

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (266 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.070389 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0705465 km/pixel

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