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The Changing Surface of Mars
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About this work
HiRISE commonly takes images of recent craters on Mars, which are usually found by the MRO Context Camera where they disturb surface dust. An impact site in this area was first imaged in December 2017. A year and a half later, the scene looks totally different! Dust has eroded from the surface, probably due to the planet-encircling dust storm from 2018. The dark spots around the fresh craters have vanished because they only affected the dust that has since disappeared.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Changing Surface of Mars. NASA/JPL, 2019-05-15. Public domain. ID: PIA23233.
