Chipped Paint Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

In the high northern latitudes NW of Alba Patera, a smooth mantle of material that covers the landscape appears chipped away from the rim of a large crater. The prominent scarp that has formed from the retreat of the mantle lacks the rounded appearance of other ice-rich mantles found in the mid-latitudes. The nature of this mantling layer therefore is more enigmatic.

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Context

Image ID: 
V05460013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
62.8767
226.241
5460
2003-03-08 18:33
Wed, 2003-04-09
VIS
1024 pixels (20 km)
3648 pixels (71 km)
0.019502 km/pixel
0.019644 km/pixel

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