Fine-scale Textures

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ May 26, 2003

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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows fine-scale textures around a crater southwest of Athabasca Vallis. These fine scale ridges are most likely the remnants of older flood eroded layered rocks and not longitudinal grooves carved out of the landscape.

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