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Exhuming Craters

July 30, 2005
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wind-eroded landscape in the Amazonis Mensa region of far western Tharsis on Mars. Two meteor impact craters are seen in a state of partial-exhumation from within the wind-eroded material.

30 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a wind-eroded landscape in the Amazonis Mensa region of far western Tharsis. Two meteor impact craters that formed in -- and then were buried by -- rock are now found in a state of partial-exhumation from within the wind-eroded material.

Location near: 2.0°N, 147.3°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn

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