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Collapse Pits near Alba Patera (MULTISPECTRUM; elab. Lunexit)
This observation shows pits in Acheron Catena, a chain of circular depressions located South-East of Alba Patera, the widest and flattest volcano on Mars. 
The layers seen around the pit rims are likely lava flows from Alba Patera or the nearby Tharsis Mons.
The pits probably formed by collapse into empty space beneath the surface as opposed to being formed by an impactor from space. Some of the pits have large piles of material in their centers. These piles are evidence of collapse of the walls, which may have occurred after the main collapse event that formed each pit. The second pit from the right has an indistinct north rim; it appears that there were at least two collapse events here.

A couple of the pits have oval shaped craters on their walls. 
The craters were almost certainly circular when they formed, but time and gravity have allowed the deformation of their shape by mass wasting.
Parole chiave: Mars from orbit - Collapse Features - Pits

Collapse Pits near Alba Patera (MULTISPECTRUM; elab. Lunexit)

This observation shows pits in Acheron Catena, a chain of circular depressions located South-East of Alba Patera, the widest and flattest volcano on Mars.
The layers seen around the pit rims are likely lava flows from Alba Patera or the nearby Tharsis Mons.
The pits probably formed by collapse into empty space beneath the surface as opposed to being formed by an impactor from space. Some of the pits have large piles of material in their centers. These piles are evidence of collapse of the walls, which may have occurred after the main collapse event that formed each pit. The second pit from the right has an indistinct north rim; it appears that there were at least two collapse events here.

A couple of the pits have oval shaped craters on their walls.
The craters were almost certainly circular when they formed, but time and gravity have allowed the deformation of their shape by mass wasting.

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Nome album:MareKromium / Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Parole chiave:Mars / from / orbit / - / Collapse / Features / - / Pits
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona e Lunar Explorer Italia per il processing addizionale e la colorizzazione
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Paolo C. Fienga   [Gen 19, 2009 at 01:25 PM]
Sempre detto con (relativa) Umiltà: un Lavoro accurato e verosimile quale è questo, a noi non risulta che le "teste d'uovo" che lavorano per l'Arizona State University, o per la Texas A&M University etc. sìano ancora state capaci di realizzarlo... - PCF

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