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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of impact ejecta, a material that is thrown up and out of the surface of a planet as a result of the impact of an meteorite, asteroid or comet.
PIA11180:
Raining Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed a small portion of a dark crater floor in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars. This is largely ancient hard bedrock that has been cratered by numerous impacts over the eons.
PIA11179:
Hard Knocks in Tyrrhena Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The dark spots in this enhanced-color infrared image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are the recent impact craters that occurred in the Tharsis region between 2008 and 2014.
PIA11176:
A Recent Cluster of Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars in sharp detail for more than a decade, enabling it to document many types of changes, such as the way winds alter the appearance of this recent impact site.
PIA21267:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Observes Changes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals an impact crater, nine kilometers in diameter, with a central peak. Impact craters of various sizes and ages can be found across the Martian surface.
PIA08395:
A Nine Kilometer Impact Crater and Its Central Peak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has witnessed many surface changes over the past ten years, including hundreds of new craters formed by ongoing impacts. This particular crater is east of NASA's Spirit rover's final resting spot in Gusev Crater.
PIA21451:
Unlocking an Impact Crater's Clues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The broader scene for this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the fluidized ejecta from Bakhuysen Crater to the southwest. A 'dragonfly' impact crater i seen with a gouged-out trench extending to the south.
PIA21454:
A Dragonfly-Shaped Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This color composite from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a portion of the northern central peak of an unnamed, 20-kilometer crater that contains abundant fragmental bedrock called breccia.
PIA21455:
Better Preserved on Mars than on Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a portion of a typical impact crater in Terra Sirenum. Some of the gully fans have a bluish color: these are probably quite recent deposits, less than a few tens of years old.
PIA21456:
Old Features and New
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a new impact site originally detected by the Context Camera onboard MRO. The crater is on a dusty slope, which also has several dark slope streaks due to dust avalanches.
PIA21459:
A New Crater on a Dusty Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This pile of old rocks is an island surrounded by younger lava flows from Syrtis Major. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21553:
Isidis Basin Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This enhanced-color image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a patch of well-exposed bedrock on the floor of Kaiser Crater. The wind has stripped off the overlying soil, and created grooves and scallops in the bedrock.
PIA21560:
Fans and Crater Floor Deposits Southeast of Vinogradov Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Hellas is an ancient impact structure and is the deepest and broadest enclosed basin on Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21570:
To Great Depths
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Sand dunes are scattered across Mars and one of the larger populations exists in the Southern hemisphere, just west of the Hellas impact basin. as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21571:
Dunes of the Southern Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The mound in the center of this image appears to have blocked the path of the dunes as they marched south across the scene. North is to the left in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21572:
The Splitting of the Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image was acquired by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to take a closer look at a circular feature that might be an impact structure on the South Polar layered deposits.
PIA21576:
Is that an Impact Crater?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Over 500 new impact events have been detected from before-and-after images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image shows new craters that expose shallow ice are of special interest.
PIA21578:
A New Impact Site in the Southern Middle Latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of Saheki Crater, about 84 kilometers across, and located in the Southern highlands of Mars, to the north of Hellas Planitia.
PIA21577:
A Sneak Peek into Saheki's Secret Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This close-up image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater with a spider web-like texture near Amazonis Mensa and Medusae Fossae, another great example of geologic complexity of Mars.
PIA21759:
Decoding a Geological Message
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this region of Mars, sprayed with secondary craters from 10-kilometer Zunil Crater to the northwest.
PIA21591:
Secondary Craters in Bas Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spies a crater that lies close to Elysium, a major volcanic system on Mars. The whole region surrounding the crater was at some point covered by lava from the volcano creating vast lava plains.
PIA21596:
It Shrinks! It Cracks!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Gullies eroded into the steep inner slope of an impact crater at this location appear perfectly pristine near Gasa Crater, in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA21599:
How Old are Martian Gullies?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an oblique view of gully deposits from the steep slope of an impact crater.
PIA21602:
Gullies with Color Anomalies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Mamers Valles is a long sinuous canyon beginning in Arabia Terra and ending in the Northern lowlands of Deuteronilus Mensae. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter features the southern facing slope of the canyon wall.
PIA21603:
Aging with Impacts
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Krupac is a relatively young impact crater, but exposes ancient bedrock; it also hosts some of the most impressive recurring slope lineae (RSL) on equatorial Mars outside of Valles Marineris, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21605:
Colorful Equatorial Gullies in Krupac Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The collision that created Hargraves Crater impacted into diverse bedrock lithologies of ancient Mars; the impact ejecta is a rich mix of rock types with different colors and textures, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21609:
Colorful Impact Ejecta from Hargraves Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals layers filling a larger crater, perhaps a combination of lava, impact ejecta, and sediments.
PIA21631:
Stratigraphy Exposed by an Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of the central uplifted region of an impact crater more than 50 kilometers wide.
PIA21640:
An Oblique View of Uplifted Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This oblique view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small part of the near-rim ejecta from Tooting Crater which must be either melted rock from the impact event, or a wet debris flow from melting of ice.
PIA21648:
Flow on the Rim of Tooting Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows it is late summer in the Southern hemisphere, so the Sun is low in the sky and subtle topography is accentuated in orbital images.
PIA21636:
A South Polar Pit or an Impact Crater?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an elongated depression from three merged craters.
PIA21652:
A Triple Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows regions of geologic diversity within an unnamed crater, formed in the Southern highlands of Mars.
PIA21654:
Gullies and Craters and Dunes, Oh My!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) observes a small impact has occurred on the sloping wall of a larger crater and is well-preserved. Dark, blocky ejecta from the smaller crater has flowed downhill (to the west) toward the floor of the larger crater
PIA21758:
A Crater on a Crater Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows partially exposed bedrock within the Koval'sky impact basin, which is on the outskirts of the extensive lava field of Daedalia Planum. Daedalia Planum is located southwest of Arsia Mons.
PIA21765:
Exposed Bedrock in the Koval'sky Impact Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes an impact crater with associated bright deposits that at first glance give the appearance of seasonal frost or ice accumulations.
PIA21766:
"Elementary, My Dear Deposit..."
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows one of millions of small craters and their ejecta material that dot the Elysium Planitia region of Mars.
PIA21769:
Escape from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the exposed bedrock of an ejecta blanket of an unnamed crater in the Mare Serpentis region of Mars.
PIA21782:
Mars and the Amazing Technicolor Ejecta Blanket
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This view of the rim and upper wall of an impact crater on the Martian surface taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA21870:
Crater Rim Layers, Rubble, and Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, these two craters perched at the edge of an outflow channel, appear to have lost a portion of their crater rims during a flood event.
PIA21881:
The Case of the Missing Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) shows one possible place where sand grains are being produced on Mars today. Grains of sand that make up sand dunes on Earth and Mars have a hazardous existence because of the way that they travel.
PIA22043:
Where Does the Sand Come From?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter covers a small central portion of the Hellas Planitia basin, the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and shows a dune field with lots of dust devil trails.
PIA22052:
Squiggles in Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) targets a portion of a group of honeycomb-textured landforms in northwestern Hellas Planitia, part of one of the largest and most ancient impact basins on Mars.
PIA22118:
Honeycomb-Textured Landforms in Northwestern Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Ladon Basin was a large impact structure that was filled in by the deposits from Ladon Valles, a major ancient river on Mars as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA22183:
Clays of Ladon Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Intricate gullies have formed on the northern wall of this impact crater located in the Terra Cimmeria region in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA22239:
Gullies and Voids
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows an impact crater looking amusingly like a tadpole because of the valley that was carved by water that used to fill it.
PIA22241:
Crater Tadpoles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows the location of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander and related hardware around the mission's May 25, 2008, landing site on far-northern Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA22223:
NASA's Phoenix Lander on Mars, Nearly a Decade Later
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a close-up of a trough, along with channels draining into the depression. On the floor of the trough is some grooved material typically seen in middle latitude regions where there has been glacial flow
PIA22348:
Formations in Context (or, what is it?)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows remarkably young lava flows in Elysium Planitia. There are almost no impact craters over this flow, indicating that it is probably only a few million years old.
PIA22432:
Young Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows two new craters on Mars with the same distinctive pattern of relatively blue ejecta surrounded by a dark blast zone and arcing patterns. This pattern indicates an oblique impact angle with a bolide.
PIA22453:
A Pair of New Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows two small impact craters located in Meridiani Planum on Mars. Small boulders on the floor and walls of the left-side crater.
PIA22454:
Twin Craters in Meridiani Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows barchan sand dunes, common on Mars often forming vast dune fields within very large (tens to hundreds of km) impact basins. The regions upwind of barchans are usually devoid of sandy bedforms.
PIA22456:
Barchan Pac-Man
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continually finds new impact sites on Mars. This one occurred within the dense secondary crater field of Corinto Crater. The new crater and its ejecta have distinctive color patterns.
PIA22462:
A New Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Hale Crater, a large impact crater (more than 100 kilometers) with a suite of interesting features such as active gullies, active recurring slope lineae, and extensive icy ejecta flows.
PIA22465:
Bedrock Exposed in the Rim of Hale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-11 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an impact crater that triggered a slope streak. When the meteoroid hit the surface and exploded to make the crater, it also destabilized the slope and initiated this avalanche.
PIA22513:
Bang and Whoosh!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed this image of an impact crater. The blue appearance is due to the intense blast of the impact moving around dust on the surface. That dust is usually light-toned and reddish in color compared to what is beneath.
PIA22534:
New Crater Blues
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Aram Chaos, an ancient impact crater that lies within in the Southern Highlands of Mars. Uplifted blocks are composed largely of the iron-oxide hematite and water-altered silicates.
PIA22585:
Uplifted Blocks of Light-Toned Layered Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-07-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater, home to fan-shaped deposits that extend from the rim and sit on the interior crater floor. Thick beds with varying tone are exposed along the edge of the fan.
PIA22592:
Fans and Valleys
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on July 22, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows that the sensitivity of HiRISE enabled imaging of surface features through a moderate level of haze.
PIA22726:
Seeing through the Dusty Air
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on May 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a large, 50-kilometer diameter crater with a mountain-like central peak formed from uplifted material below.
PIA22784:
Tell-Tale Bedrock in Tyrrhena Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-10-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on June 2, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an impact crater in the south Syrtis Major region.
PIA22727:
Colorful Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 5, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new impact crater that formed between July and September 2018.
PIA23019:
Impact Near the South Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 15, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cross-section of a complex crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA23022:
Cross-Section of a Complex Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on November 30, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a complex crater, where we see bedrock in several locations from different depths in the crust.
PIA23057:
Exposing the Rock in Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a recent impact in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars.
PIA23061:
A Recent Impact Site in Noachis Terra
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This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Athabasca Valles with lava flows originating from Elysium Mons to the northwest.
PIA23062:
Almost Like Water
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-03-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 26, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the hills that resulted from uplifted rocks due to an impact that formed the 230-kilometer diameter Galle Crater.
PIA23078:
Gullies in Galle
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This image acquired on January 23, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the western portion of a well-preserved (recent) impact crater in Ladon Basin.
PIA23079:
Colorful Impact Ejecta in Ladon Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 26, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is part of a campaign to image potential impact craters in the south polar layered deposits (ice cap).
PIA23106:
A Crater on the South Polar Layered Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on January 19, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows what appears to be a new impact cluster and, extending downhill from the craters, new dark slope streaks.
PIA23181:
Impact-Induced Dust Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 24, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, revisits an impact site in this area first imaged in December 2017.
PIA23233:
The Changing Surface of Mars
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This image, acquired on May 20, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the Nili Fossae region, to the west of the great Isidis basin, with layered bedrock and many impact craters.
PIA23452:
The Bedrock Riddles of Nili Fossae
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This image, acquired on June 10, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows sedimentary rock and sand within Danielson Crater, located in the southwest Arabia Terra region of Mars.
PIA23454:
Layers in Danielson Crater
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This image, acquired on May 31, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a small crater, just seven meters across, was created on Mars sometime between April 2018 and January 2019.
PIA23476:
A New Crater on Mars
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This image, acquired on July 30, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Alga Crater, located in the southern highlands near a large flood-channel called Ladon Valles.
PIA23479:
Mars Underground Exposed: The Central Peak of Alga Crater
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This image, acquired on August 11, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows wind-blown deposits known as transverse aeolian ridges (TARs). They are frequently visible in images of the Martian tropics.
PIA23529:
Pristine Dust Deposits in Syria Planum
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This image acquired on September 15, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the floor of an old impact crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA23584:
Both Ancient and Modern
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This image, acquired on December 19, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows an impact crater on the north polar ice cap, which contains an icy deposit on the crater floor.
PIA23671:
North Polar Changes over 6 Mars Years
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This image, acquired on December 25, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a crater south of Aurorae Chaos has a central pit exposing bedrock units with diverse colors, indicating diverse rock compositions.
PIA23737:
Exposing Colorful Deep Bedrock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on December 31, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows part of the ejecta from an impact crater (about 6-kilometers in diameter) to the west in Utopia Planitia.
PIA23759:
A Crater Enlarged by the Sublimation of Ice
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This image acquired on December 31, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new impact crater that formed after December 2007 and before August 2010, based on Context Camera images.
PIA23760:
A New Impact Marking Fades Away
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This image acquired on February 2, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the inside of an impact crater on the northern plains of Mars.
PIA23847:
Colorful Bedrock in a Northern Plains Crater
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This image acquired on December 30, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Tooting Crater, one of the youngest craters on Mars that is larger than 20-kilometers in diameter.
PIA23848:
Pitted Material from Tooting Crater
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This image acquired on March 4, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows gullies are common on steep slopes of many impact craters on Mars.
PIA23850:
Monitoring Active Gullies
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This image acquired on March 27, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a couple of dark lineations on the equator-facing wall of this impact crater that resemble small recurring slope lineae (RSL).
PIA23854:
Keeping a Watchful Eye
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This image acquired on March 29, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a pitted, blocky surface, but also more unusually, it has contorted, irregular features.
PIA23855:
Disrupted Sediments in Acidalia Planitia
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This image acquired on April 5, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows some faint traces of dark flows along the headwall of an impact crater.
PIA23951:
Faint Traces of Dark Flows
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This image acquired on April 26, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the crisp detail of a crater rim.
PIA23953:
Along the Straight Edge
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This image acquired on September 24, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a huge tongue-like form, which looks a like a mudflow with boulders on its surface.
PIA23286:
Tooting Crater Ejecta
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This image, acquired on May 16, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cratered area to the southeast of the ExoMars 2020 Rosalind Franklin rover landing site at Oxia Palus.
PIA23289:
Landing in Oxia Palus
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This image acquired on June 23, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows terrain near Mangala Valles.
PIA24146:
A Criss-Cross Landscape with Fresh Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 2, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dozens of dark, dust-free, streaks on slopes surrounding a crater.
PIA24382:
Blast Waves and Dusty Landslides
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This image acquired on January 3, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows evidence of a complex cycle of cratering and erosion.
PIA24462:
Eroding Sediments
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This image acquired on March 11, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows material almost completely filling an impact crater to the northeast of Hale Crater, perhaps water-rich ejecta from Hale itself.
PIA24618:
Strange Terrain
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This image acquired on March 12, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new crater visible here at about 13 meters in diameter.
PIA24619:
A New Impact Crater with Bright Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on April 16, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a surface shaped by ice.
PIA24620:
Ice-Rich Terrain of the Northern Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on April 23, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a small crater, first seen by HiRISE.
PIA24693:
Long-lasting Ice in a Young Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on April 10, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows rays of ejecta thrown out by the impact of a meteor.
PIA24694:
Splat!
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This image acquired on May 4, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows circles on the Martian landscape of Utopia Planitia.
PIA24698:
Ghost Craters of Utopia Planitia
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This image acquired on June 12, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows layers in a kilometer-wide cutout, sloping from the crater's rim at right downward toward its floor off to the left.
PIA24861:
Colorful Layers in a Crater Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on August 1, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Utopia Planitia, a volcanic region located in the low-lying Northern Hemisphere of Mars.
PIA24914:
The Zhurong Rover Explores Utopia Planitia
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