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Cerberus Fossae

March 30, 2016
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Cerberus Fossae, a group of graben located near the southern part of Tartarus Montes.
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Cerberus Fossae is a group of graben located near the southern part of Tartarus Montes. The graben are fault bounded blocks of material that have slide downward along the fault faces. The fossae cut through the hills of Tartarus Montes, which means the montes formed first and the fossae formed at some time after the montes.

Orbit Number: 62493 Latitude: 10.6719 Longitude: 158.93 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-01-15 10:49

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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