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East Tharsis Pit Chain

July 7, 2005
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a chain of collapse pits fomed among dust-mantled lava flows in the eastern Tharsis region of Mars.

7 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.5 meters per pixel (~5 ft/pixel) view of a chain of collapse pits fomed among dust-mantled lava flows in the eastern Tharsis region of Mars.

Location near: 16.0°N, 93.1°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season Northern Autumn

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