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A Pair of Collapse Pits
The pair of Pit Craters visible here are the smallest anomalous Pits known to exist at this time. These have either vertical or sub-vertical interior Walls (not visible from a nearly overhead viewing perspective), and each Pit is deep enough that Sunlight does not hit the floor when the Sun is at the Zenith. 
Unfortunately, the only Thermal-InfraRed camera currently orbiting Mars cannot resolve features this small, so the temperature characteristics of these Pits must remain unknown for now, underscoring the need for a high-resolution thermal instrument on future missions. 
Intriguingly, when Pit Craters on Earth have similar characteristics to the pair shown here, they often have Cave entrances in their bases connecting to large underground networks. 
Current investigations are determining whether the anomalous Martian Pits may be shown to contain such entrances.
Parole chiave: Mars from orbit - Collapse Features - Pits

A Pair of Collapse Pits

The pair of Pit Craters visible here are the smallest anomalous Pits known to exist at this time. These have either vertical or sub-vertical interior Walls (not visible from a nearly overhead viewing perspective), and each Pit is deep enough that Sunlight does not hit the floor when the Sun is at the Zenith.
Unfortunately, the only Thermal-InfraRed camera currently orbiting Mars cannot resolve features this small, so the temperature characteristics of these Pits must remain unknown for now, underscoring the need for a high-resolution thermal instrument on future missions.
Intriguingly, when Pit Craters on Earth have similar characteristics to the pair shown here, they often have Cave entrances in their bases connecting to large underground networks.
Current investigations are determining whether the anomalous Martian Pits may be shown to contain such entrances.

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Nome del file:A_Pair_of_Small_Pit_Craters_(PSP_009488_1745)-1.jpg
Nome album:MareKromium / Mars in JPEG2000
Valutazione (4 voti):55555(Mostra dettagli)
Parole chiave:Mars / from / orbit / - / Collapse / Features / - / Pits
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona e Gianluigi Barca
Dimensione del file:424 KiB
Data di inserimento:Lug 10, 2009
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