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Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

Ophir Chasma. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (1976) During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or... More

Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars

Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars

Gullies eroded into the wall of a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra. This high resolution view (top left) from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) shows channels and associated aprons o... More

MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater

MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater

MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater NASA/JPL/GSFC

Mars Ophir Chasma, NASA Viking Images

Mars Ophir Chasma, NASA Viking Images

During its examination of Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km long, up to 240 km wide, and 6.5 km deep, whose connected chasma or valleys may have... More

Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia

Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia

Detail of an Impact Crater, Acidalia Planitia NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Impact Crater with Peak, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

Impact Crater with Peak, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

This image taken by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a classic example of a Martian impact crater with a central peak. Central peaks are common in large, fresh craters on both Mars and the Moon. NASA/JPL/Ariz... More

Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits

Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits

Impact Crater Filled With Layered Deposits NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona

Ice Deposition and Loss in an Impact Crater in Utopia Basin

Ice Deposition and Loss in an Impact Crater in Utopia Basin

This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spans from wall to wall across the center area of an impact crater. From what we see, a lot has happened to modify the appearance of the crater since it w... More

Lava Against an Impact Crater in Elysium Planitia

Lava Against an Impact Crater in Elysium Planitia

This image shows lava crumpled against the upstream side of an impact crater as seen by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Frosted Impact Crater in Late Northern Winter

Frosted Impact Crater in Late Northern Winter

This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was planned to search for gully activity in the Northern Hemisphere. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

An Impact Crater in Isidis Planitia

An Impact Crater in Isidis Planitia

An impact crater in Isidis Planitia observed for a fifth time by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Crater with Exposed Layers - NASA Mars images

Crater with Exposed Layers - NASA Mars images

On Earth, geologists can dig holes and pull up core samples to find out what lies beneath the surface. On Mars, geologists cannot dig holes very easily themselves, but a process has been occurring for billions ... More

A New Crater on a Dusty Slope. NASA public domain image colelction.

A New Crater on a Dusty Slope. NASA public domain image colelction.

This image from NASA 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 d... More

Is that an Impact Crater?. NASA public domain image colelction.

Is that an Impact Crater?. NASA public domain image colelction.

This image was acquired to take a closer look at a circular feature that might be an impact structure on the South Polar layered deposits. Measuring the sizes and frequency of impact craters provides a constra... More