Icaria Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel-like features in this VIS image are tectonic graben. These graben are called Icaria Fossae and are located in Terra Sirenum. Graben are created in regions of extensional tectonic stress, where the bedrock is faulted and pulled apart, allowing linear sections of the surface to drop downward along paired faults.

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Context

Latitude: -46.5369

Longitude: 236.614

Orbit Number: 81751

Captured: 2020-05-19 16:24

Posted to Web: Fri, 2020-07-24

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.033924 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0341122 km/pixel

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