Echus Chasma

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Echus Chasma forms the boundary between the Tharsis volcanoes to the west and Lunae Planum to the east. This region is one of both tectonically fractured rocks (top of image) and volcanic flows (middle and bottom of image). Echus Chasma empties into Kasei Valles.

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Context

Image ID:

V44493003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 10.5538

Longitude: 284.764

Orbit Number: 44493

Captured: 2011-12-25 20:08

Posted to Web: Mon, 2012-01-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018701 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019685 km/pixel

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