This observation should provide us a closer look at lava-topography interactions in this area.
HiRISE
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Unusual Crater Texture On Mars Hints At Early History
This scene from the eastern side of Terra Cimmeria, northeast of the Hellas impact basin, shows many impact craters of different sizes and types of preservation, with a few sharp-looking […]
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Ice Planet Recon: Looking For Avalanches At Mars’ North Pole
The North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) are large layered deposits of dusty water-ice in the northern polar region of Mars. The layering we see is caused mainly by slight variations […]
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Active High-Latitude Dune-Gullies On Mars
Gully and defrosting activity have been visible here along the edge of a dune field, along with blocks of frost. Observations of the same area help us check for repeat […]
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Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency’s Jet […]
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Mars Orbital Recon: Coprates Chasma Within Valles Marineris
This image of Coprates Chasma shows the deepest part of the giant Valles Marineris canyon system, more than 7 kilometers below the nearest rim and 11 kilometers beneath the surrounding […]
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A Colorful Landslide in Eos Chasma On Mars
This image was requested in the very first month of MRO’s Primary Science Phase, November 2006. Due to many competing targets in the Valles Marineris canyon system, it took until […]
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Water-driven Accessible Potential Karstic Caves in Hebrus Valles, Mars: Implications for Subsurface Habitability
The Hebrus Valles region on Mars exhibits geomorphological indicators of past aqueous activity, such as fluvial channels and aligned sinkholes.
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Mars Perseverance’s SHERLOC Finds Organic Molecules in Bright Angel
A potential biosignature is a substance or structure that might have a biological origin but requires more data or further study before a conclusion can be reached about the absence […]
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Deposits in Arsinoes Chaos – Possible Remnants Of An Ancient Lake On Mars
The objective of this observation is to examine a light-toned deposit in a region of chaos terrain. The deposit displays a rough surface, in contrast to the smoothness of the […]