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Avernes Colles

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region of arcuate fractures and chaos on the highland/lowland boundary which is called Avernus Colles.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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This region of arcuate fractures and chaos on the highland/lowland boundary is called Avernus Colles.

Orbit Number: 88691 Latitude: 2.44735 Longitude: 178.064 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-12-12 02:56

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.

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.