Mineral Specimens Collection

Diverse geological specimens including garnets, minerals, and rocks, highlighting their unique colors and textures in detailed close-up shots.

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Geology, Rocks, 'Conglomerate Rock Found In Berkshire, England. Sedimentary Rocks Consisting Of Rounded Fragments '

$. Arsia Mons Flank - False Color. The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image. Today's false color image shows part of the flank of Arsia Mons. The three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes are Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons and Ascreaus Mons (from south to north). There are collapse features on all three volcanoes, on the southwestern and northeastern flanks. This alignment may indicate a large fracture/vent system was responsible for the eruptions that formed all three volcanoes. This VIS image shows part of the eastern flank of Arsia Mons, west of the aligned fracture system. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the Tharsis volcanoes. It is 270 miles (450km) in diameter, almost 12 miles (20km) high, and the summit caldera is 72 miles (120km) wide. For comparison, the largest volcano on Earth$

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