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Beautiful Blocks of Bedrock
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About this work
This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft targets a 3-kilometer diameter crater that occurs within the ejecta blanket of the much older Bakhuysen Crater, a 150-kilometer diameter impact crater in Noachis Terra. Impact craters are interesting because they provide a mechanism to uplift and expose underlying bedrock, allowing for the study of the subsurface and the geologic past.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineBeautiful Blocks of Bedrock. NASA/JPL, 2016-06-01. Public domain. ID: PIA20728.
