Arsia Mons

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows the eastern flank of Arsia Mons, the southernmost aligned volcano in the Tharsis region. The volcano is 435 kilometres (270 mi) in diameter, and almost 20 kilometres (12 mi) high. Arsia Mons is one of the youngest volcanoes on Mars.

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Context

Image ID:

V80952003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -9.8557

Longitude: 241.487

Orbit Number: 80952

Captured: 2020-03-14 21:40

Posted to Web: Mon, 2020-05-25

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (254 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.067201 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0681579 km/pixel

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