Elysium Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a portion of one of the larger depressions on the NW edge of the Elysium volcanic complex. Portions of this large channel system appear to have been created by liquid flow, while other portions appear to have tectonic action as the formation process.

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Context

Latitude: 28.4502

Longitude: 138.828

Orbit Number: 61770

Captured: 2015-11-16 21:51

Posted to Web: Thu, 2016-01-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018799 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0190599 km/pixel

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