Mars Express visits Shalbatana Vallis on Mars
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of Shalbatana Vallis, a large channel in Mars’s equatorial region.
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This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on 22 October 2024 (orbit 26265). It was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the colour channels of the HRSC. North is to the right. The ground resolution of the original image is approximately 22 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 12°N/317°E.
[Image description: A dark orange patch of Mars, with a large, winding channel running from the bottom left to the right of the frame. The rest of the landscape is scattered with circular craters and uneven bumps, but is mostly smooth. A small scale bar at the bottom right indicates that north is to the left, and that a line approximately one tenth of the image width is 20 km long.]
