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Hints of an Ancient Shoreline in Southern Isidis Planitia
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Hints of an Ancient Shoreline in Southern Isidis Planitia

NASA / JPL · 2013-11-06 · photograph (digital archive)

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This area seen by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is known as the Deuteronilus contact of the Isidis Basin; it has been interpreted as a possible ancient shoreline. There are also suggestions that this contact is of volcanic origin.

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Credit lineHints of an Ancient Shoreline in Southern Isidis Planitia. NASA/JPL, 2013-11-06. Public domain. ID: PIA17671.

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