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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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This anaglyph of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was generated from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, and shows a subtle but distinctive indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA03380:
Anaglyph, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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The top picture is a shaded relief image of the northwest corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula generated from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, and shows a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater.
PIA03381:
Shaded Relief with Height as Color and Landsat, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Pavonis Mons is the middle of the three large volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge. This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft covers the edge of the volcano's caldera. Outside of the caldera, numerous lava flows and impact craters can be seen.
PIA04445:
Pavonis Mons Caldera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The fluidized impact crater ejecta and flat crater floors observed in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft suggest near-surface volatiles once played an important role in modifying the Martian surface.
PIA04446:
Impact Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey, eroded mesas and secondary craters dot the landscape in an area of Cydonia Mensae. The single oval-shaped crater displays a 'butterfly' ejecta pattern, indicating that the crater formed from a low-angle impact.
PIA04448:
Cydonia Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-27 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission shows Manicouagan Crater, one of the world's largest and oldest known impact craters and perhaps the one most readily apparent to astronauts in orbit.
PIA03384:
Stereo Pair, with Topographic Height as Color, Manicouagan Crater, Quebec, Canada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-27 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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Manicouagan Crater is one of the world's largest and oldest known impact craters and perhaps the one most readily apparent to astronauts in orbit. This anaglyph is from the instrument onboard NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. 3D glasses needed.
PIA03385:
Anaglyph, Manicouagan Crater, Quebec, Canada
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The slumping of materials in the walls of this impact crater imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft illustrates the continued erosion of the Martian surface. Small fans of debris as well as larger landslides are observed throughout the image.
PIA04453:
Landslides
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows six global images acquired on February 14, 2003.
PIA04268:
A Mid-Northern Summer/Southern Winter's Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a scar left by a landslide revealing layers in the bedrock at the top the slope and shows a plethora of dark-toned, house-sized boulders that rolled down the slope and collected at the base of the landslide scar.
PIA04269:
Landslide in Kasei Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image by NASA's Mars Odyssey illustrates the complex terrains within Terra Meridiani. This general region is one of the more complex on Mars, with a rich array of sedimentary, volcanic, and impact surfaces that span a wide range of Martian history.
PIA03839:
Terra Meridiani
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a complex streak formed by deposition and erosion of sediment by wind in the lee of an impact crater in western Daedalia Planum on Mars.
PIA04465:
Daedalia Planum Wind Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The surface textures observed in this NASA Mars Odyssey image of Ascraeus Mons are due to different volcanic flow types. Textural variations can be produced under a variety of different conditions such as varying cooling and flow rates.
PIA04466:
Ascraeus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the margin of a large lava flow south of the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA04467:
Lava Flow and Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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The light-toned materials at the bottom end of this anaglyph fomr NASA's Mars Global Surveyor are considered to be thick exposures of sedimentary rock. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA04481:
Northern Sinus Meridiani Stereo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the large, circular feature Aram Chaos, an ancient impact crater on Mars filled with layered sedimentary rock that was later disrupted and eroded to form a blocky, 'chaotic' appearance.
PIA04485:
Aram and Iani Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a ring of boulders on the floor of a southern mid-latitude basin on Mars. The sharp, inner ring of boulders and knobs is the location of the rim of a filled and buried impact crater.
PIA04486:
Boulder Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The ejecta material of the impact crater on Mars observed in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is partly eroded as the trend of a regional geologic unit is beginning to emerge from beneath, or actively form on top of, the blanket.
PIA04490:
Eroded Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows of layered sedimentary rock outcrops in northern Sinus Meridiani on Mars featuring several buttes and ridges formed in rock that is somewhat resistant to erosion.
PIA04492:
Meridiani Cliffs and Buttes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey observed variable surface textures on Mars, the result of different lava flow units.
PIA04506:
Surface Textures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows thick, dust-mantled regions of Arabia Terra, parts of Tharsis, Memnonia, and some of the knobby areas west of Amazonis Planitia on Mars. They most likely form by avalanching of loose, dry dust.
PIA04508:
Slope Streaks in Arabia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pattern of polygons on the floor of a northern plains impact crater. These landforms are common on crater floors at high latitudes on Mars.
PIA04516:
Polygons on Crater Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Utopia Planitia, one of the most heavily-cratered areas on Mars.
PIA04526:
Buried Craters of Utopia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand dunes have over-ridden a suite of low, somewhat rectilinear ridges on the floor of an impact crater on Mars.
PIA04539:
Ridges and Sand Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a suite of wind-sculpted ridges on the plains northwest of the Tharsis volcano, Ascraeus Mons on Mars. Two circular features are old meteor impact craters.
PIA04543:
Wind-Eroded Terrain in Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the upper crater wall and emergent from the slope of a lower terrace on Mars.
PIA04548:
Gullies in Terraced Crater Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an old meteor impact crater that was once buried and was then partially-exhumed from within the layered rocks on the floor of a much larger crater in eastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04549:
Old Arabian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows two craters in Arabia Terra on Mars, in the old cratered highlands, are surrounded by many small mesas.
PIA04555:
Eroded Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-03 Earth Terra
MISR
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This artist concept is of NASA's MISR spacecraft which views the sunlit Earth simultaneously at nine widely spaced angles.
PIA04498:
Artist's Concept of Terra Satellite with MISR Onboard
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows craters and troughs at polar and middle latitudes on Mars with gullies carved in their walls.
PIA04570:
Gullies in Crater Wall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows wind-sculpted remnants of layered sedimentary rock that once completely covered the northwestern floor of Henry Crater, an ancient impact basin on Mars.
PIA04571:
Layered Yardangs in Henry Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows platy surface texture of the vast plains southeast of the volcano Elysium Mons on Mars likely formed by very fluid cooling lava.
PIA04578:
Volcanic Surface Textures
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on the floor of the caldera, a large volcanic/collapse crater, of a giant martian volcano, Arsia Mons on Mars.
PIA04581:
Impact on Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' two natural satellites, or moons, Phobos and Deimos.
PIA04589:
Phobos Over the Martian Limb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a streak formed by wind in the lee of a meteor impact crater on Mars.
PIA04590:
Crater with Wind Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dozens of layers of similar thickness and physical properties in a wedding cake-like stack in the middle of an old meteor impact crater in northwestern Schiaparelli Basin on Mars.
PIA04592:
Schiaparelli Sedimentary Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the wall of an impact crater in Terra Sirenum on Mars.
PIA04599:
Gullies in Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in July 2003 of small hills/mounds in Isidis Planitia on Mars which may be of volcanic origin or alternatively eroded impact craters called pedestal craters.
PIA04608:
Bumps and Humps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-03 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda are the four main islands in this view of the U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands, along the perimeter of the Caribbean Sea. This image is from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03391:
SRTM Perspective with Landsat Virgin Islands, Caribbean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-03 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda are the four main islands (lower left to upper right) of this map-view anaglyph of the U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA03392:
Anaglyph with Landsat Virgin Islands, Caribbean
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows more than a dozen examples a dune in eastern Kaiser Crater on Mars. Deep scars have formed on the slip face slopes by avalanches of sand.
PIA04610:
Kaiser Dune Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark sand dunes and lighter-toned ripples trapped among the mountainous central peak of an old impact crater in Terra Tyrrhena on Mars.
PIA04612:
Windblown Dunes and Ripples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a large dust storm engulfing southern Isidis Planitia on Mars.
PIA04615:
Time for Dust Storms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a fresh, young meteor impact crater on the martian surface with well-preserved rayed ejecta patterns.
PIA04619:
Fresh, Rayed Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in July 2003, showing the central uplift of an impact crater on Mars that formed by inward and upward movement of material below the crater floor during the crater-forming event.
PIA04643:
Crater Interior
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small, dust-covered volcano on the plains east of Pavonis Mons on Mars. The floor of the caldera (elliptical depression at the summit of the volcano) has a few windblown ripples on it.
PIA04650:
Small Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of polygonal features resembling a giant, martian spider web on the floor of a northern hemisphere impact crater on Mars.
PIA04653:
Spiders from Mars?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a stair-stepped mound of sedimentary rock on the floor of a large impact crater in western Arabia Terra on Mars. A circular mound and other nearby mesas and knobs are present.
PIA04656:
Stair-stepped Mound
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cluster of old, small impact craters on Mars. The group of craters was probably formed by secondary impacts following a much larger impact that occurred some distance away.
PIA04658:
Layers in Crater Cluster
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a mound of layered sedimentary rock that stands higher than the rim of Gale crater on Mars.
PIA04672:
Gale Sedimentary Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small meteor impact crater that has been modified by wind erosion. Crater and ejecta to appear as if standing upon a raised platform, a feature that Mars geologists call a pedestal crater.
PIA04678:
Pedestal Crater and Yardangs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows part of the boulder-strewn surface of an ejecta deposit from a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra on Mars.
PIA04683:
Bouldery Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows streaks in the lee of obstacles such as meteor impact craters and lava flow margins in southwestern Daedalia Planum on Mars.
PIA04693:
Daedalia Planum Wind Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the eroded terrain in northeast Arabia Terra near Huo Hsing Vallis on Mars. The terrain is layered, and these layers have been eroded.
PIA04700:
Northeast Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in August 2003, showing large grooves indicating tectonic faulting cross just south of the Tharsis Monteson Mars.
PIA04704:
Craters and Grabens: Circles and Lines
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in August 2003, showing knobby terrain and an eroded impact crater in the Eumenides Dorsum region on Mars; evidence the surface has been heavily modified and stripped over time.
PIA04710:
Eroded Surfaces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-02 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in August 2003, showing several linear cross-cutting grabens and collapse features on Mars.
PIA04713:
Cross-Cutting Relationships
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Hellas Planitia on Mars, the floor of a giant basin that originally formed by the impact of a large comet or asteroid.
PIA04723:
Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the remains of two former meteor impact craters in northeastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04725:
Eroded Cratered Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in September 2003, showing heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars. Elliptical craters with 'butterfly' ejecta patterns make up roughly 5% of the total crater population of Mars.
PIA04729:
Butterfly Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in September 2003, showing Arkhangelsky crater, just to the northeast of the giant Argyre impact basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars. A few dark barchan dunes are seen on the floor of this crater.
PIA04741:
Arkhangelsky Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows flow patterns formed by mud or lava from some of the youngest flow events that occurred in the terrain in the Kasei Valles region of Mars. Large, ripple-like, windblown bedforms are evident.
PIA04744:
Kasei Valles Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor highlights the surface of Mars' moon, Phobos. Several large boulders are present. Most of the boulders may have been ejected from the largest impact crater on Phobos, Stickney.
PIA04746:
Boulders on Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in September 2003, showing Ruza impact crater on Mars with very interesting gullies and migrating sand dunes, north of Argyre Planitia.
PIA04742:
Marching Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an old, eroded meteor impact crater in western Chryse Planitia on Mars.
PIA04753:
Eroded Crater
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the pitted floor of the caldera of the martian volcano, Ceraunius Tholus. A caldera is a large collapse pit at the summit of a volcano.
PIA04755:
Ceraunius Caldera Floor
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Named for a great river in Africa, the martian version is a system of eroding channels that empties into the Hellas impact basin as seen in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in September 2003.
PIA04764:
Niger Vallis
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small meteor crater on the surface of Mars.
PIA04776:
Small Impact Crater
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THEMIS
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These craters, located in the southern highland heavily cratered terrain, show heavy degradation, most likely caused by the presence of water ice. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04777:
Craters Modified by Ice
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THEMIS
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Two craters east of the Hellas impact basin dominate the field of view. The craters are alike in that they have been filled in by a lot of material after they were formed. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04779:
Two Craters
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04782:
Valley Near Nilus Chaos
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04795:
Northern Plains Patterns
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04807:
Impact Crater
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04808:
Crater Cluster
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04809:
Fresh Impact Crater
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04813:
Hecates Tholus
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04815:
Crater in Syrtis Major
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04838:
Isidis Planitia
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04841:
Defrosting Scene
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04860:
Circular Mesa
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The bright and dark tones in this image taken November 2003 by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of an unnamed impact crater near the larger impact crater Schiaparelli are due to variable amounts of bright dust and dark sand covering the surface.
PIA04863:
Dust and Sand Mixing
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The rims of two old and degraded impact craters are intersected by a graben near Mangala Fossa. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in November 2003.
PIA04868:
Cutting Craters
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04870:
Circles and Streaks
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04874:
Meridiani Sedimentary Rocks
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a vista of sedimentary rocks outcropping on a slope in Aram Chaos on Mars. Dark piles of coarse talus have come down the slopes as these materials continue to erode over time.
PIA04881:
Rocks Exposed on Slope in Aram Chaos
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04886:
Crater Cluster Near Pathfinder
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04888:
Multiple-Event Gully
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04890:
Layers in Crater Wall
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04891:
Elysium Mons Wind Streak
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THEMIS
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Nov 26, 2003 shows channels and impact craters observed near Warrego Valles have been eroded and filled with sediment after their formation.
PIA04894:
Filled Channels and Craters
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04903:
Devil-Streaked Crater
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04904:
Exhuming Crater in Northeast Arabia
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04905:
Polygons near Lyot Crater
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Dec 8, 2003 shows remarkable layered deposits covering older, cratered surfaces near Mars' south pole. The margin of these layered deposits appears to be eroding poleward.
PIA04910:
Mars South Polar Layered Deposits
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04912:
Crater in Marte Vallis
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04929:
Gullies in Crater in Hellas
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04930:
Clouds Near Mie Crater
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Dec 18, 2003 shows fairly rare asymmetric craters. The more typical symmetric craters are formed when meteors impact a surface over a wide range of angles.
PIA04945:
Asymmetric Crater
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Dec 22, 2003 shows several interesting impact craters near Scamander Vallis that illustrate the dynamic nature of the Martian surface.
PIA04947:
Dynamic Mars
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Dec 24, 2003 shows a portion of the Isidis Basin at the center of an elliptical region on Mars.
PIA04949:
A Martian Christmas Present
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