Crater Delta

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel in the center of this VIS image empties into an unnamed crater. The sediments carried by the water dropped out and formed a delta deposit where the channel crossed the crater rim. This delta deposit indicates that a lake existed in this crater at some point in the Martian past. The crater and channel are located in Claritas Fossae.

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Context

Latitude: -39.1622

Longitude: 256.971

Orbit Number: 98896

Captured: 2024-03-31 09:12

Posted to Web: Tue, 2024-07-02

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.03395 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0342815 km/pixel

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