Chaos Margin

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

What appear to be channels in this VIS image is the dissection of the higher elevations on the margin of Chryse Chaos. Continued dissection eventually creates the block/mesa forms termed chaos on Mars.

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Context

Image ID:

V37840018 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 12.8547

Longitude: 318.423

Orbit Number: 37840

Captured: 2010-06-26 02:12

Posted to Web: Mon, 2010-08-09

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018034 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018165 km/pixel

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