Acheron Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows part of Acheron Fossae. Acheron Fossae is the highly fractured, faulted and deformed terrain located 1,050 kilometers (650 miles) north of the large shield volcano Olympus Mons. Lava flows from Olympus Mons at the base of Acheron Fossae show that the fossae predate the flows. The scarps visible in this image are approximately one kilometer (3,300 feet) high.

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Context

Latitude: 37.5356

Longitude: 228.824

Orbit Number: 102846

Captured: 2025-02-19 15:50

Posted to Web: Fri, 2025-11-21

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (287 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.075695 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.076572 km/pixel

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