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Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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This VIS image of Tithonium Chasma shows the canyon wall at the top of the frame, a series of landslide deposits in the middle, and an eroded mound of materials at the bottom. The mound has been eroded, most likely by wind action. Tithonium Chasma has numerous large landslide deposits. The resistant material of the plateau surface forms the linear ridges of the canyon wall. Large landslides have changed the walls and floor of the canyon. A landslide is a failure of slope due to gravity.
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Credit lineInvestigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma. NASA/JPL, 2018-02-13. Public domain. ID: PIA22273.
