
This image of the floor of an old impact crater in Arabia Terra shows evidence of multiple different geological processes, both ancient and modern. The linear ridges and scarps formed eons ago, perhaps as fractures filled with lava or some other dark material that is more resistant to erosion than the surrounding materials in the crater floor. Boulders up to 3 meters in diameter are strewn downslope on both sides of the dark ridge near the center of the picture. The nearby knob is the source of several long dark slope streaks. These dark streaks are probably caused by dust avalanches that remove bright dust and reveal the darker subsurface below. These streaks likely formed within the last few years, based on HiRISE observations of slope streaks elsewhere on Mars. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23584
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NASA ID
PIA23584
Date Created
November 27, 2019
Center
JPL
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