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Claritas Fossae Region


Date: 30 January 2006
Satellite: Mars Express
Copyright: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

Image created by ESA Science from data contained in the Mars Express public archive. The selected colour scheme is an interpretation based on the original raw data.

A further high resolution image of the Claritas Fossae region on Mars. Claritas Fossae is located on the Tharsis rise, south of the three large volcanoes known as the Tharsis Montes, and extends roughly north to south for approximately 1800 kilometres.

 

Image Details
Orbit Number

530

Image capture start 2004-06-20 T 04:03:58.326 Z
Image capture stop 2004-06-20 T 04:10:59.293 Z
Corners at
Top Left: 255.65° -22.53°
Top Right: 260.78° -22.39°
Lower Left: 256.44° -41.50°
Lower Right: 260.14° -41.56°
Image Size

164 x 1150 x 281 x 1153 km

Source reference file

H0530_0000_ND2.IMG

Max. resolution of original

31.4 m per pixel

Max. resolution of processed file

~100 m per pixel

 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO License. Creative Commons License

 

Last Update: 1 September 2019
12-Mar-2026 22:18 UT

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