Bahram Vallis, Entering Waspam Crater

Today's VIS image shows Bahram Vallis where it enters Waspam Crater. Bahram Vallis exits the crater to the north a short distance from this location along the rim of Waspam Crater.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University

Tooting Crater

FRESHNESS AND CLARITY. Tooting Crater, named for a suburb of London, offers scientists a clear look at a fresh medium-size impact. This view, which looks toward the northwest, shows in the foreground the rampart that piled up about 80 meters (260 feet) high when the debris flowing from the impact came to rest. Here the rampart lies about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the rim.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University, R. Luk

Note: For more information, see Tooting Crater's Tangled Tale.

Craters in Arabia Terra

CRATERS AND DEPRESSIONS open "windows" into the subsurface terrain of northwest Arabia Terra. In the bottoms of some depressions lie deposits that formed under different environmental conditions than Mars has at present. This view (which has no vertical exaggeration) looks toward the north-northeast.

Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University, R. Luk

Note: For more information, see Back Into the Light of Day.