Arsia Mons Lava Flows at Night

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This nighttime IR image is of lava flows from Arsia Mons. The different tones of brightness in the nighttime IR are indicative of the relative ages of the flows in the images. The small circular features are impact craters.

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Context

Image ID:

I07900011 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -5.7486

Longitude: 243.469

Orbit Number: 7900

Captured: 2003-09-25 14:15

Posted to Web: Tue, 2004-12-21

Instrument: IR

Image Width: 320 pixels (31 km)

Image Height: 2585 pixels (260 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.100675 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.098251 km/pixel

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