Auqakuh Vallis

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel in today's VIS image is called Auqakuh Vallis. 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).

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Context

Image ID:

V79261003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 29.0373

Longitude: 60.3106

Orbit Number: 79261

Captured: 2019-10-27 16:12

Posted to Web: Thu, 2020-01-30

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (68 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.018685 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0188534 km/pixel

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