Acheron Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows part of Acheron Fossae. Acheron Fossae is the highly fractured, faulted and deformed terrain located 1,050 kilometers (650 miles) north of the large shield volcano Olympus Mons. Lava flows from Olympus Mons at the base of Acheron Fossae show that the fossae predate the flows.

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Context

Latitude: 38.8782

Longitude: 220.025

Orbit Number: 87741

Captured: 2021-09-24 21:46

Posted to Web: Mon, 2022-04-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (69 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.037899 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0382846 km/pixel

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