Perspective view, looking from south-east to north-west, over Cerberus Fossae
Perspective view, looking from south-east to north-west, over Cerberus Fossae
The landscape in the Cerberus Fossae region looks as though it has been sliced through with a knife. The tectonic fissure structures were created less than 100 million years ago, and possibly even less than 10 million years ago. This is also apparent from the profile of the Fossae, which are confined by extremely steep and in some cases almost perpendicular walls, which in some places are more than 500 metres high.
