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Terraced Craters and Layered Targets
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About this work
Small impact craters usually have simple bowl shapes; however, when the target material has different layers of different strength, then more complicated crater shapes can emerge as shown in image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own description- Institution
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Catalogue identifier
- PIA17631
- Arkivism identifier
- nasa-PIA17631
- Date
- 2013-09-12
- Medium
- photograph (digital archive)
- Image dimensions
- 1,280 × 800 px
Credit lineTerraced Craters and Layered Targets. NASA/JPL, 2013-09-12. Public domain. ID: PIA17631.
