Olympia Rupes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The steep feature in this VIS image is the margin of the north polar cap, called Olympia Rupes. (Rupes means scarp.) The layering of the polar cap is visible in this image.

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Context

Image ID:

V60880009 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 84.6789

Longitude: 214.002

Orbit Number: 60880

Captured: 2015-09-04 15:11

Posted to Web: Wed, 2015-11-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (16 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (57 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.015736 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0157609 km/pixel

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