Alba Mons Tectonics

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Termed both "catena" and "fossae", long linear depressions are a dominate surface feature of Alba Mons. Created by tectonic forces, these depressions are fault bounded downdropped block of materail called grabens on Earth. Today's VIS image shows two graben.

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Context

Image ID:

V38753008 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 36.4426

Longitude: 262.063

Orbit Number: 38753

Captured: 2010-09-09 06:21

Posted to Web: Fri, 2010-10-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018729 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018865 km/pixel

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