Fractures of Claritas Fossae

The HRSC on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft obtained this colour image on 29 June 2004 during orbit 563 with a ground resolution of approximately 40.2 metres per pixel.

The scene shows the region of Claritas Fossae, about 150 kilometres wide in the north and 550 kilometres wide in the south, about 1200 kilometres in length, and centred approximately at 253° East and 32° South. The linear fractures of Claritas Fossae have widths ranging from a few kilometres to 100 kilometres.

This is a high-resolution image of the Claritas Fossae region on Mars, further to the one which was published on 31 March 2004.

This image was 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.