Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Hydraotes Chaos (Released 17 March 2005)

Vital Statistics
Location: 1.6N, 325.6E	Released: 2005-03-17
Image Size: 18.4 x 273.0 km, 512 x 7584 px
Resolution: 36m	Instrument: VIS

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Image Context:
Context image for 20050317a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20050317a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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One of the topics for the Image of the Day was mountains and chaotic terrain on Mars.

This is an image of Hydraotes Chaos, the large chaos terrain just east of Valles Marineris. Chaos is typically interpreted to be a collapse terrain; it is the blocky landscape after the transport and removal of subsurface support material.