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Utopia Planitia Surface
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Utopia Planitia Surface

NASA / JPL · 2013-07-24 · photograph (digital archive)

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This observation captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a couple of landforms that may result from the loss of large amounts of ice from subsurface deposits: polygonal patterns of troughs and large scallop-shaped depressions.

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Credit lineUtopia Planitia Surface. NASA/JPL, 2013-07-24. Public domain. ID: PIA17633.
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