Daedalia Planum

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three large aligned volcanoes in the Tharsis region. Arsia Mons' last eruption was 10s of million years ago. The different surface textures are created by differences in the lava viscosity and cooling rates. The lobate margins of each flow can be traced back to the start of each flow -- or to the point where they are covered by younger flows. Flows in Daedalia Planum can be as long as 180 km (111 miles).
For comparison the longest Hawaiian lava flow is only 51 km (~31 miles) long. The total area of Daedalia Planum is 2.9 million square km – more than four times the size of Texas.

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Context

Image ID: 
V87778003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-14.0489
240.029
87778
2021-09-27 22:36
Mon, 2022-04-25
VIS
512 pixels (17 km)
1824 pixels (61 km)
0.033792 km/pixel
0.0342068 km/pixel

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