Alba Patera

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The ancient collapsed volcano, Alba Patera, is surrounded by graben and collapse features termed catenae. The 'string-of-pearls' appearance of the catenae is caused by collapse controlled by the fractures at the margins.

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Context

Image ID: 
V28946007 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
35.8617
258.084
28946
2008-06-23 10:32
Tue, 2008-08-26
VIS
1024 pixels (19 km)
3648 pixels (68 km)
0.018644 km/pixel
0.01878 km/pixel

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