Candor Chasma Mesa

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

A mantling layer of sediment slumps off the edge of a mesa in Candor Chasma producing a ragged pattern of erosion that hints at the presence of a volatile component mixed in with the sediment.

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Context

Image ID:

V04310002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -6.6726

Longitude: 286.362

Orbit Number: 4310

Captured: 2002-12-04 01:05

Posted to Web: Wed, 2003-01-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017484 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017611 km/pixel

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