This image shows a 125 by 125 km region on the eastern flanks of Freyja Montes, in Ishtar Terra, centered on 72 degrees north, 342 degrees east. The image is dominated by a highly fractured dome, approximately 70 by 125 km (42 by 75 miles), that appears to delineate a local region of uplift and extension within the regionally compressional mountain belt. The "turtle-back" appearance of the dome is the result of two sets of intersecting fractures; one trending roughly north to north northeast and the other west to west northwest. Individual scarps appear to define graben, commonly 1 by 5 km (0.6 by 3.0 miles) wide. Age relationships between the two sets of graben are complex, but west-northwest trending features most often appear to crosscut the north trending graben. In the eastern portion of the image, structures have been heavily embayed by volcanic plains deposits. The appearance of a purely extensional feature within the compressional zone of the Freyja Montes orogenic belt may have significant implications for the mechanisms by which mountains are built on Venus
