Auqakuh Vallis

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel in today's VIS image is called Auqakuh Vallis. Auqakuh Vallis is located in northern Terra Sabaea. Large channels on Mars are named for the word "mars/star" in different languages on Earth, small channels are named for rivers on Earth. "Auqakuh" is the word "mars" in Quechua (Inca). Auqakuh Vallis is 347 km long (215 miles).

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Context

Latitude: 30.5699

Longitude: 60.3821

Orbit Number: 104181

Captured: 2025-06-09 13:20

Posted to Web: Wed, 2026-03-11

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.037139 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0375173 km/pixel

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