Nili Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows one of the linear depressions that form Nili Fossae. Nili Fossae is a collection of curved faults and down-dropped blocks of crust between the faults called graben. The graben lie northeast of the large volcano Syrtis Major and northwest of the ancient impact basin Isidis Planitia.

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Context

Latitude: 22.6314

Longitude: 78.9859

Orbit Number: 78911

Captured: 2019-09-28 20:29

Posted to Web: Thu, 2019-10-31

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036711 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0371168 km/pixel

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