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Dark Craters

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About

This HiRISE image was taken to sample terrain north of Elysium Planitia and Athabasca Valles. Because HiRISE can only image a small fraction of Mars, most images are targeted on specially selected features of interest. However, we also sample other locations, both to understand the normal terrain and look for things that might not have been obvious enough in other data for anyone to mark out a target. This image caught something interesting. Most of the surface is smooth regolith peppered with small craters. However, some of the craters are notably dark compared with everything else in the image. Zooming in to full resolution shows the reason: the dark craters have small ripples and are dark — NASA JPL · 2024. ABD devlet eseri: kamu mali, ticari islerde de serbestce kullanilabilir.

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