Tractus Catena

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows part of Tractus Catena, just one of many north/south trending tectonic graben located south and east of Alba Mons. The graben with circular pits are part of Tractus Catena. The graben without pits are part of Tractus Fossae. The pits most likely formed as a result of roof collapse into an underlying open space such as a lava tube.

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Context

Latitude: 22.161

Longitude: 256.199

Orbit Number: 104324

Captured: 2025-06-21 07:52

Posted to Web: Fri, 2026-03-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (275 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.072691 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0736512 km/pixel

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