Nili Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The linear depressions in today’s VIS image are part of 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: 22.3452

Longitude: 77.6366

Orbit Number: 79510

Captured: 2019-11-17 04:15

Posted to Web: Thu, 2020-02-06

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018469 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0185972 km/pixel

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