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Drag Folds in the North Polar Layered Deposits
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About this work
These North Polar layered deposits, composed of ice, captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, show what looks like drag folds, where rock layers bend fold before they break in a fault. However, the North Polar layered deposits are composed of ice, and this is a large scale for such a feature, compared to drag folds on Earth. This image is part of a stereo pair, so with a 3D picture, we can better interpret the structure.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineDrag Folds in the North Polar Layered Deposits. NASA/JPL, 2016-06-01. Public domain. ID: PIA20731.
