Claritas Fossae Channel

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a section of an unnamed channel. This channel starts in Claritas Fossae and empties down into Icaria Planum. The linear features that parallel the sides of the image are fractures that can create linear depressions (fossae).

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Context

Image ID:

V75343003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -39.1537

Longitude: 257.791

Orbit Number: 75343

Captured: 2018-12-08 23:49

Posted to Web: Thu, 2019-03-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017031 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0167932 km/pixel

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