Channel and Graben

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image of Tempe Terra contains northward flowing channels and a graben running ENE to WSW. When the intersection of the large channel and the graben is examined it shows that the fracturing that created the graben postdates the channel.

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Context

Image ID: 
V28333013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
43.3995
304.382
28333
2008-05-03 23:04
Tue, 2008-06-17
VIS
1024 pixels (19 km)
3648 pixels (69 km)
0.019046 km/pixel
0.019184 km/pixel

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