Arsinoes Chaos

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows part of Arsinoes Chaos. Chaos terrain is typified by regions of blocky, often steep sided, mesas interspersed with deep valleys. With time and erosion the valleys widen and the mesas become smaller. It has been proposed that a catastrophic outflow of subsurface water creates the chaos. Arsinoes Chaos is located in northern Margaritifer Terra.

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Context

Latitude: -6.59378

Longitude: 333.343

Orbit Number: 97533

Captured: 2023-12-10 03:56

Posted to Web: Thu, 2024-05-09

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.035596 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0359362 km/pixel

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