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Slipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos
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Slipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos

NASA / JPL · 2022-10-24 · photograph (digital archive)

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Echus Chaos is a region of low hills located between Lunae Planum (to the right of this image) and Echus Palus (to the left of this image). This chaos terrain may have formed as the rocks that make up Lunae Planum slowly slid downhill into Echus Palus. As these rocks slid downhill, they broke up into large pieces that formed the hills that we see today.

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Credit lineSlipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos. NASA/JPL, 2022-10-24. Public domain. ID: PIA25556.
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