
This image from NASA Mars Odyssey is of wiss cheese terrain. Sometimes simple terms like these can accurately describe the appearance of a surface, but it does not relate at all to how that surface texture may have formed.
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NASA ID
PIA13948
Date Created
March 29, 2011
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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