Cerberus Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows part of Cerberus Fossae. These large graben cut across the Tartarus Montes in Elysium Planitia. A graben is formed when large blocks of material slid downward between paired faults in regions of extensional stresses.

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Context

Image ID:

V77648003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 10.0918

Longitude: 160.48

Orbit Number: 77648

Captured: 2019-06-16 20:19

Posted to Web: Thu, 2019-07-25

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036426 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0365025 km/pixel

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