Chain of Pits
Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ June 8, 2005
8 June 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a chain of pits associated with dust-covered lava flows in northern Tharsis. The pits formed along a fault; some of the flows may have erupted along this same fault.
Location near: 23.4°N, 110.6°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn