Sacra Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The right angle intersection of the depressions in this VIS image is one of the graben that form Sacra Fossae. The fossae are located on Sacra Mensa, near the beginning of Kasei Valles. Graben are depressions caused by parallel faults where a block of material drops down along the fault face.

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Context

Latitude: 23.2339

Longitude: 290.007

Orbit Number: 72803

Captured: 2018-05-13 19:26

Posted to Web: Thu, 2018-08-16

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018468 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0190979 km/pixel

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