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Icy Flow in a Crater
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The material on the floor of this crater appears to have flowed like ice, and contains pits that might result from sublimation of subsurface ice. The surface is entirely dust-covered today. There probably was ice here sometime in the past, but could it persist at some depth? This crater is at latitude 26 degrees north, and near-surface ice at this latitude (rather than further toward one of the poles) could be a valuable resource for future human exploration.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineIcy Flow in a Crater. NASA/JPL, 2017-03-08. Public domain. ID: PIA21556.