Science & Exploration
Perspective view 2 of Ascraeus Mons
This oblique perspective view shows the southern flanks of Ascraeus Mons, the second-tallest volcano on Mars.
A number of weaving depressions can be seen from this perspective; these are fissures and ‘coalesced pit crater troughs’, features where strings of circular or near-circular depressions have combined and coalesced to form troughs. They are part of a group of features – including lava flows and channel-like rilles – collectively named Ascraeus Chasmata, which encompasses an enormous patch of collapsed terrain over 70 km across.
This image was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.
