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Boulders on a Landslide
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The striking feature in this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a boulder-covered landslide along a canyon wall. Landslides occur when steep slopes fail, sending a mass of soil and rock to flow downhill, leaving behind a scarp at the top of the slope. The mass of material comes to rest when it reaches shallower slopes, forming a lobe of material that ends in a well-defined edge called a toe.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineBoulders on a Landslide. NASA/JPL, 2015-12-23. Public domain. ID: PIA20290.
