Pit Crater

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is located in Noachis Terra. The unnamed crater at the bottom of the image contains a central pit. Central features such as pits and peaks can provide information about both the impacted surface and the size of the meteorite.

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Context

Image ID:

V65680003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -28.4965

Longitude: 349.805

Orbit Number: 65680

Captured: 2016-10-03 22:49

Posted to Web: Fri, 2016-12-02

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017274 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0174637 km/pixel

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