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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows patterns created by defrosting processes on the martian south polar seasonal ice cap. Dark cracks form a polygon pattern, and wind blows material to form varied bright and dark streaks.
PIA04750:
Defrosting Patterns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows part of a deposit created by a landslide off the wall of a crater on Mars. These layers represent a long history of sedimentation that occurred in Gale Crater at some time in the distant martian past.
PIA04747:
Landslide!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-09-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor highlights a Cydonia landform popularly known as the 'D&M Pyramid' on Mars. Much of the landform is covered with eroded mantling material.
PIA04745:
The Cydonia "D&M Pyramid" Landform
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wide angle view of the giant martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
PIA04737:
Oblique Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the layered, sedimentary rock outcrops exposed on a mound in Gale Crater on Mars.
PIA04738:
Layers in Gale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand forming spectacular geometric patterns in the north polar sand seas of Mars.
PIA04736:
North Polar Dune Patterns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the lower wall and floor of the caldera at the top of a martian volcano named Pavonis Mons on Mars.
PIA04735:
Public-Requested Mars Image: Crater on Pavonis Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an area of light-toned, wind-blown, ripple-like bedforms spotted in the Brazos Valles near Schiaparelli Basin on Mars.
PIA04733:
Brazos Valles Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of southern Auqakuh Vallis in northeastern Arabia Terra on Mars. The terrain surrounding the valley has been eroded such that only remnants of former craters and layered bedrock remain.
PIA04734:
Arabia's Auqakuh Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows eroded, layered sedimentary rock exposures, common in the chasms of the Valles Marineris system on Mars.
PIA04732:
Layers in East Candor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dark sand dune on the floor of a crater on Mars. Recent dust devils have disrupted a thin coating of dust on the otherwise dark dune.
PIA04727:
Dune and Dust Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows patterned ground, a mosaic of polygonal forms, highlighted by seasonal frost in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA04726:
South Polar Polygons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a suite of gullies in the wall of a crater on Mars. The gullies are considered to have formed by downslope transport of water-laden debris.
PIA04722:
Martian Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an outcropping of ancient, sedimentary rock in a crater in western Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04721:
Ancient Sedimentary Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a knobby terrain and eroded impact crater in the Eumenides Dorsum region of Mars.
PIA04720:
Defrosting Sand
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows defrosting gullies and mass movement (landslide) features in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA04719:
Defrosting South Polar Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil in the Phlegra region of Mars. Dust devils are spinning, columnar vortices of air that move across a landscape, picking up dust as they go.
PIA04698:
Summertime Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows shows the Cerberus Fossae troughs on Mars. Dark sediment and talus from the trough walls are visible, as are some of the layers in the subsurface exposed by the troughs.
PIA04699:
Cerberus Fossae Trough
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a mesa in the Avernus Colles region of Mars. The mesa and very large blocks that have been shed from its slopes are evident.
PIA04697:
Crumbled Mesa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a series of collapsed pits and troughs in central Elysium Planitia on Mars known as Hephaestus Fossae.
PIA04696:
Hephaestus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a bright wind streak in southern Acidalia Planitia on Mars. The streak is mostly likely a very thin coating of dust.
PIA04695:
Crater and Wind Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows banded terrain in easternmost Hellas Planitia, between the distal ends of Dao and Harmakhis valleys on Mars.
PIA04694:
Banded Terrain in East Hellas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a field of dark sand dunes trapped on the floor of a crater near Cerberus on Mars.
PIA04692:
Intracrater Dune Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a color image of a crater rim mantled with fine dust on Mars.
PIA04691:
Dark Slope Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the south polar residual cap of Mars. Patterns are formed by erosion and sublimation of multiple layers of frozen carbon dioxide.
PIA04690:
South Polar Artwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the dark area in southwest Peridier Crater on Mars.
PIA04688:
Peridier Dune Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the western summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars featuring a lava flow that was cut by the pit walls when the caldera collapse occurred.
PIA04689:
Top of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the lava flows and leveed lava channels on the southeastern flank of Olympus Mons on Mars. These flows have been covered by a thick mantle of dust.
PIA04687:
Southeast Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of Noachis Terra, Mars, on a winter afternoon as great gusts of wind lifted dust from a variety of surfaces all across the region.
PIA04686:
Dust-Raising Event in Noachis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows autumn view of Peridier Crater on Mars taken on August 6, 2003. Fine, dark-toned sediment has been blown out of the dune field and settled on the crater rim.
PIA04684:
Peridier Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of small mesas with sharp, arcuate edges located on the south polar residual cap of Mars.
PIA04685:
South Polar Mesas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the plethora of large, windblown ripples (or small dunes) among wind-sculpted sedimentary rocks in eastern Candor Chasma on Mars.
PIA04681:
Large, Windblown Ripples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the meandering scars of many, ancient valley systems and networks of portion of Scamander Vallis, located in central Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04682:
Scamander Vallis
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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 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Tithonium Chasma is one of the troughs of the vast Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04679:
Layers in Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows pitted terrain northeast of Hellas Basin on Mars shows light-toned outcrops of layered, sedimentary rock, and a valley floor covered by large, dark ripples or small dunes.
PIA04680:
Northeast Hellas Landscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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)
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The Marte Vallis system of Mars, located east of Cerberus and west of Amazonis Planitia, is known for its array of broken, platy flow features as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04676:
Marte Vallis Platy Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows yardangs in the Aeolis region of Mars. Yardangs are ridges formed by wind erosion.
PIA04677:
Aeolis Yardangs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Warrego Valles, a suite of branching valleys located in the martian southern hemisphere.
PIA04674:
Warrego Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the wind-eroded surfaces of the Labou Vallis system on Mars. The original valley walls and floor were covered with a material that was later eroded by wind to form the sharp, rough textured terrain present here.
PIA04675:
Labou Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-07-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a series of curving scarps formed by erosion and sublimation of carbon dioxide from Mars' south polar cap.
PIA04670:
South Polar Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor show some of the lava flows on the middle south flank of the giant volcano Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars.
PIA04669:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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Dark debris has slid down the west-facing slopes of the cliff of Mars' Terby Crater as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04665:
Cliff in Terby Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned sedimentary rock outcrops on the floors of the chasms associated with the Valles Marineris system of Mars and neighboring outflow channels.
PIA04662:
Outcrop In Juventae Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows retreating patches of frost on a field of large, dark sand dunes in the Noachis region of Mars. Large, windblown ripples of coarse sediment are also seen on some of the dunes.
PIA04663:
Defrosting Sand Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an intercrater plain in the Memnonia region of Mars that has been severely eroded by wind to form sharp ridges known as yardangs.
PIA04664:
Textured Memnonia Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a field of small barchan sand dunes in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA04660:
Fortune Cookie Sand Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small, puffy, water ice clouds over a cratered terrain near Icaria Planum on Mars.
PIA04657:
Clouds Near Icaria Planum
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a polygonal pattern developed in seasonal carbon dioxide frost in the martian southern hemisphere.
PIA04655:
Polygons in Martian Frost
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a strangely-textured floor on Mars. The original crater has been somewhat eroded and much of its interior has been filled with sediment since it formed.
PIA04654:
North Mid-latitude Crater
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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 2003-07-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2003-07-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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Winds streaming off Mars' polar cap toward the north create a variety of patterns in the fogs formed by water ice or vapor as the seasonal cap retreats during southern spring as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04641:
Crater with Wavy Fog
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, wind-streaked plains of eastern Cerberus, located southeast of the Elysium volcanoes. The dark, diagonal lines are the Cerberus Fossae, a series of cracks where the surface of Mars has literally split open.
PIA04640:
Eastern Cerberus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-07-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows pits and scarps in Mar's frozen south polar carbon dioxide ice cap.
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South Polar "Poodle"
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops exposed on the floor of a trough that parallels Coprates Chasma in the Valles Marineris system on Mars.
PIA04637:
Sedimentary Rock Near Coprates
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Auqakuh Vallis located in northeastern Arabia Terra, an eroded, cratered highland terrain on Mars. The floor of the valley has several dozen large, windblown ripples on it.
PIA04638:
Southern Auqakuh Vallis
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows collapse pits in the Tractus Fossae region on Mars. Dark streaks on the slopes of the pit result from avalanches of dry, fine-grained debris (probably dust).
PIA04636:
Tractus Fossae Collapse Pit
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows part of a dark-floored valley system in northern Newton Crater on Mars.
PIA04621:
Dark Valley in Newton Crater
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows martian north polar ice cap surrounded by fields of dark, windblown sand dunes.
PIA04620:
North Polar Sand Dunes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an offset in layered rock caused by a fault located on the floor of Ius Chasma on Mars.
PIA04616:
Ius Chasma Fault
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of dark slope streaks, formed by avalanches of dust, on the walls of a crater in southwest Amazonis on Mars.
PIA04613:
Dark Slope Streaks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a shallow valley south of Cerberus on Mars. The valley may have been cut but torrents of mud-laden water; alternatively, an extremely fluid lava was involved.
PIA04614:
Valley South of Cerberus
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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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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a boulder has rolled down a slope in the martian region of Gordii Dorsum of Mars. The boulder sits at the end of the track.
PIA04605:
Boulder Track
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an early southern spring view of the frost-covered Charitum Montes, south of Argyre Planitia on Mars.
PIA04606:
Frosty Mountains
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the layer outcrops in Terby Crater on Mars. Fans of debris have eroded from the steep, layered slopes in some places.
PIA04600:
Layers in Terby Crater
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an eastward-moving dust storm on the plains north of Cydonia and western Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04598:
Autumn Dust Storm
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the four large Tharsis volcanoes on Mars: Olympus Mons, Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons.
PIA04591:
Mars 2003
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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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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows frost-covered gullies in a crater in the martian southern hemisphere. The dark spots are areas where the frost has begun to change or sublime away.
PIA04587:
Defrosting Gully Aprons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows defrosting sand dunes in the southern hemisphere of Mars, dark spots are beginning to form on sand dunes covered with carbon dioxide frost.
PIA04588:
Defrosting Sand Dunes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows large, relatively bright ripples of windblown sediment in the Sinus Sabaeus region south of Schiaparelli Basin on Mars.
PIA04584:
Large, Bright Wind Ripples
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the Solar System. The surface is rugged, with many overlapping lava flow structures, all of which are mantled by a thick blanket of dust and wind-scoured sediment.
PIA04583:
Flows on Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Terby Crater, a basin just north of Hellas Planitia on Mars. Sedimentary rocks are eroded and exposed.
PIA04582:
Terby Crater Layers
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows f the sand dune field in Richardson Crater on Mars. Small dark streaks on some of the dune slip face slopes are sites of avalanches of sand.
PIA04575:
Richardson Dunes in Summer
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark sand dunes near the center of Schaeberle Crater on Mars. Steep slopes on the dunes point northwest.
PIA04573:
Sand Dunes of Schaeberle Crater
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the margin of a lava flow near the edge of a scarp in far western Daedalia Planum on Mars. A blanket of dust covers the upland and the rugged lava flow surfaces.
PIA04574:
Daedalia Lava Flow Margin
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows frost-covered sand dunes in Chasma Boreale in the early northern spring season on Mars. Dark spots, some of them with bright halos of re-precipitated frost, have formed as the dunes begin to defrost.
PIA04572:
Frosted Chasma Boreale Dunes
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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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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Charitum Montes, south of Argyre Planitia on Mars, in early June 2003. Bright features are surfaces covered by frost.
PIA04569:
Frost in Charitum Montes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered sedimentary rocks in southern Galle Crater on Mars.
PIA04567:
Layers in Galle Crater
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