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Polar Pit (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
This image features the North Wall and Floor of a Polar Pit in the Southern Hemisphere. The Pit Wall is sculpted into a row of gullies. Gullies typically have a triangular start upslope, followed by a channel that transported material, and a triangular debris fan downslope. 

Polar Pit Gullies might be related to seasonal changes in frost coverage, but their exact origin is currently unknown. The Gullies appear bright because they probably have seasonal frost on them. The Pit Floor contains a field of dark Sand Dunes. 
Wind has transported sand across the Martian Surface, and it was deposited in this Pit and formed dunes. 
Some of the sand in the Dunes might have come from the gully debris fans or other erosion of the Pit wall. The bright material within the dunes and along the floor is seasonal frost that is probably composed of CO2 and water ice.
Parole chiave: Mars from orbit - South Polar Regions - Pit

Polar Pit (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)

This image features the North Wall and Floor of a Polar Pit in the Southern Hemisphere. The Pit Wall is sculpted into a row of gullies. Gullies typically have a triangular start upslope, followed by a channel that transported material, and a triangular debris fan downslope.

Polar Pit Gullies might be related to seasonal changes in frost coverage, but their exact origin is currently unknown. The Gullies appear bright because they probably have seasonal frost on them. The Pit Floor contains a field of dark Sand Dunes.
Wind has transported sand across the Martian Surface, and it was deposited in this Pit and formed dunes.
Some of the sand in the Dunes might have come from the gully debris fans or other erosion of the Pit wall. The bright material within the dunes and along the floor is seasonal frost that is probably composed of CO2 and water ice.

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Nome del file:ESP_012873_1075_RED_abrowse.jpg
Nome album:MareKromium / Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Valutazione (3 voti):55555(Mostra dettagli)
Parole chiave:Mars / from / orbit / - / South / Polar / Regions / - / Pit
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona e Lunar Explorer Italia per il processing addizionale e la colorizzazione
Dimensione del file:1551 KiB
Data di inserimento:Giu 11, 2009
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