Tithonium Chasma

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows the part of the northern side of Tithonium Chasma. Tithonium Chasma is at the western end of Valles Marineris. Valles Marineris is over 4000 kilometers long, almost as wide as the United States. Tithonium Chasma is almost 810 kilometers long (499 miles), 50 kilometers wide and over 6 kilometers deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is about 175 kilometers long, 30 kilometers wide, and only 2 kilometers deep. The canyons of Valles Marineris were formed by extensive fracturing and pulling apart of the crust during the uplift of the vast Tharsis plateau. Landslides have enlarged the canyon walls and created deposits on the canyon floor. Weathering of the surface and influx of dust and sand have modified the canyon floor, both creating and modifying layered materials. The layered materials are at the bottom of the image, while a small landslide deposit can be seen in the center of the image.

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Context

Image ID: 
V90884011 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-4.28132
271.232
90884
2022-06-10 16:39
Tue, 2022-09-13
VIS
512 pixels (18 km)
1824 pixels (64 km)
0.035358 km/pixel
0.0351743 km/pixel

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