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Investigating Mars: Ascraeus Mons
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This image of the flank of Ascraeus Mons shows several individual flows where the sides are higher than the center. These are called leveed flows, as the outer margin acts as a levee containing the flow as it continues downslope. Levees grow as the flow margins start to cool. The hotter liquid lava continues as long as the source flows. The Odyssey spacecraft has spent over 15 years in orbit around Mars, circling the planet more than 69000 times.
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Credit lineInvestigating Mars: Ascraeus Mons. NASA/JPL, 2017-08-31. Public domain. ID: PIA21823.
