Bizarre Crater Mound

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The height of the interior mound of sediment inside this crater exceeds the crater rim heights by 900 meters (3,000 ft). It is not know how this occurred. Several dust avalanches can be seen on the slopes of the mound.

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Context

Image ID: 
V06278023 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
12.2343
26.2855
6278
2003-05-15 02:53
Thu, 2003-06-05
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (65 km)
0.018048 km/pixel
0.018179 km/pixel

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