Hephaestus Fossae

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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This VIS image shows part of Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is a complex channel system in Utopia Planitia near Elysium Mons. It has been proposed that the channels formed by the release of melted subsurface ice during an impact event. Additionally, the nearby Elysium volcanic center created subsurface heating that may have played a part in creating Hephaestus Fossae. Hephaestus Fossae is 633km long (393 miles).

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Context

Latitude: 20.3308

Longitude: 123.376

Orbit Number: 102001

Captured: 2024-12-12 02:08

Posted to Web: Mon, 2025-09-29

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (281 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.074225 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0750037 km/pixel

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