Baetis Mensa

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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The bottom half of this image shows the northern tip of Baetis Mensa. The mensa is brighter and smoother than its surroundings, and it thought to be eroded into layered material deposited into Ophir Chasma after the tectonic activity that created the original canyon. Baetis Mensa is 181km (112 miles) long. Ophir Chasma is approximately 317km long (197 miles) and is part of the Valles Marineris system of canyons.

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Context

Latitude: -3.64517

Longitude: 287.687

Orbit Number: 103462

Captured: 2025-04-11 08:18

Posted to Web: Wed, 2026-01-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (269 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.070942 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0713059 km/pixel

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