Remnants of Lost Geology

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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In eastern Arabia Terra, remnants of a once vast layered terrain are evident as isolated buttes, mesas, and deeply filled craters. The origin of the presumed sediments that created the layers is unknown, but those same sediments, now eroded, may be the source of the thick mantle of dust that covers much of Arabia Terra today.

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Context

Image ID: 
V04954006 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
20.4781
49.956
4954
2003-01-26 03:08
Wed, 2003-02-05
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (66 km)
0.018231 km/pixel
0.018364 km/pixel

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