Moving Downhill

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows an isolated mountain east of Hellas Planitia. Erosion is moving material down hill towards the lower elevations. The linear features on the hill debris indicate that volatiles such as ice may play a part in the erosion.

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Context

Image ID:

V74924003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -42.7071

Longitude: 108.078

Orbit Number: 74924

Captured: 2018-11-04 11:37

Posted to Web: Fri, 2019-01-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034163 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0344668 km/pixel

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