Tharsis Volcanics

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image is located just east of Arsia Mons. Numerous volcanic flows are visible, flowing downhill to the lower right side of the image. Several tectonic graben are present, generally trending perpendicular to the flows. A small channel feature and a discontinuous channel follow the flow trend. These features are likely lava channels and lava tube traces.

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Context

Latitude: -7.28995

Longitude: 244.476

Orbit Number: 81763

Captured: 2020-05-20 16:20

Posted to Web: Tue, 2020-07-28

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017254 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0174927 km/pixel

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