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PIA15096: Fresh Crater Revealing Buried Ice
Recent small craters discovered by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter expose buried ice in the middle latitudes of Mars. This ice is a record of past climate change.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Instrument:  HiRISE 
 Product Size:  923 x 690 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Arizona/HiRISE-LPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA15096.tif (1.914 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA15096.jpg (132.1 kB)  

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Recent small craters discovered by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter expose buried ice in the middle latitudes of Mars. This ice is a record of past climate change. Not stable today, it was deposited during a period of different obliquity, or tilt, of the planet's axis.

This image is one product from HiRISE observation ESP_011337_2360 . Other image products from this observation are available at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_011337_2360. (Image: ESP_011337_2360; (Reference: Byrne et al., 2009).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2011-11-21