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Caught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps
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Caught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps

NASA / JPL · 2008-03-03 · photograph (digital archive)

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Amazingly, this image has captured at least four Martian avalanches, or debris falls, in action. It was taken on February 19, 2008, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment HiRISE camera on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Credit lineCaught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps. NASA/JPL, 2008-03-03. Public domain. ID: PIA10245.

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