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Mantled Terrain in the Southern Mid-Latitudes
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This mantle observed by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is thought to be deposited as snow during periods when the angle of the tilt of Mars rotational axis-called obliquity-is much higher, which last happened around 10 million years ago.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMantled Terrain in the Southern Mid-Latitudes. NASA/JPL, 2014-08-27. Public domain. ID: PIA18775.
