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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Lava Lamp Terrain on the Floor of Hellas Basin

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Lava Lamp Terrain on the Floor of Hellas Basin
Image credit: NASA/ JPL/University of Arizona

Uploader comment: Some of the weirdest and least-understood landscapes on Mars are on the floor of the deep Hellas impact basin. This image was acquired in northwest Hellas where depths are more than 6 kilometers below the reference (or roughly the average) altitude for Mars.


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