Channel and Graben

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)

Latitude: 43.3995

Longitude: 304.382

Orbit Number: 28333

Captured: 2008-05-03 23:04

Posted to Web: Tue, 2008-06-17

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (69 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019046 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019184 km/pixel

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