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A Crater Enlarged by the Sublimation of Ice

NASA / JPL · 2020-03-20 · photograph (digital archive)

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This image covers part of the ejecta from an impact crater (about 6-kilometers in diameter) to the west in Utopia Planitia. The ejecta lobes have morphologies suggesting icy flow. Several small (about 100 to 200 meters in diameter) craters on top of those lobes have a distinctive formation.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)Mars

Credit lineA Crater Enlarged by the Sublimation of Ice. NASA/JPL, 2020-03-20. Public domain. ID: PIA23759.

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