
The south polar residual cap is constantly changing as carbon dioxide sublimates from steep slopes, enlarging pits, and condenses on flat areas, filling pits. Sometimes the strange landscape produces something that looks familiar, like the mascot of a certain peanut company, who recently died in a commercial, and was "creamated" according to "Saturday Night Live." At least, he still has Mars. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24617
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PIA24617
Date Created
May 24, 2021
Center
JPL
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