Delta

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This unnamed crater in northern Terra Cimmeria has a small channel that created a delta feature. Such features are important indicators of liquid water in Mar's past.

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Context

Image ID:

V40094002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -4.77563

Longitude: 117.942

Orbit Number: 40094

Captured: 2010-12-28 14:39

Posted to Web: Fri, 2011-02-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017644 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017773 km/pixel

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