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Icy Cliffs at the Martian North Pole
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An ice cap about three kilometers (two miles) thick exists at the North Pole of Mars. In some locations its edge is a cliff about 800 meters (half a mile) high that is an almost-vertical wall of ice. With HiRISE images like this one we can look at this cliff face and see it is broken up into jagged blocks. Debris piles at the base of the cliff show where these blocks have fallen out.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineIcy Cliffs at the Martian North Pole. NASA/JPL, 2023-05-12. Public domain. ID: PIA25949.
