Alba Patera Graben

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image is on the southern flank of Alba Patera - a large, old volcano. The top to bottom trending graben structures likely formed as the volcano collapsed into the empty magma chamber beneath the surface.

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Context

Image ID:

V10227011 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 31.8838

Longitude: 251.432

Orbit Number: 10227

Captured: 2004-04-04 04:57

Posted to Web: Tue, 2005-03-29

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01863 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018765 km/pixel

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