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Pitted Cones: Possible Methane Sources?
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This image was acquired on May 15, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This observation shows relatively bright mounds scattered throughout darker and diverse surfaces in Chryse Planitia. These mounds are hundreds of meters in size. The largest of the mounds shows a central pit, similar to the collapsed craters found at the summit of some volcanoes on Earth. The origins of these pitted mounds or cratered cones are uncertain.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePitted Cones: Possible Methane Sources?. NASA/JPL, 2018-09-04. Public domain. ID: PIA22682.