Giant "Polygon" Troughs, Elysium Planitia at Full Resolution

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Sept. 18, 2000

This image taken on August 31, 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows polygon cracks, or troughs, graben formed by faults.

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