Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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ESP_014312_1320_RED_abrowse.jpgGully in Massif in the Nereidum Montes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)127 visiteSource: NASA/MRO
Coord.: 47,4° South Lat. and 305,3° East Long.
Spacecraft altitude: about 253 Km
M.L.T.: 14:28 (early afternoon)
S.I.A.: 44° (with the Sun about 46° above the Local Horizon)
Credits: NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona
Additional process. and color.: LunexitMareKromium
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ESP_014315_1845_RED_abrowse.jpgGordii Dorsum (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)56 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014320_1465_RED_abrowse.jpgCentral Peak surrounded by Fan (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)56 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014320_1840_RED_abrowse.jpgLibya Montes' Massif (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)54 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014324_0955_RED_abrowse.jpgSnow-Streaks on McMurdo Crater (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)67 visiteThe SPLD are a stack of ice and dust about 3 Km (a little less than 2 miles) thick. The many layers that make up this feature are of great interest to planetary scientists because, just as with ice sheets on Earth, they are thought to contain a record of the Planet’s climate in previous times.
As with the rest of Mars, impact craters form continuously on these Polar Deposits.
Rarely, a very large impact will occur and the crater will excavate all the way through this ice-sheet to the rocky terrain underneath. This is what happened in the case of McMurdo, a crater roughly 20 Km (about 12,5 miles) across which punched through the ice-sheet in the past.
This HiRISE image shows the wall of this Crater, only half of which has been preserved until current times.
You can see the many layers that comprise the SPLD exposed here.
Scientists study exposures like this to try to understand the length of the climatic record that is recorded in the icy material at the Poles of Mars.MareKromium
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ESP_014324_1555_RED_abrowse.jpgThe Western Rim of Alga Crater (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)55 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014325_1400_RED_abrowse.jpgGullied Massif in Nereidum Montes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)54 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014326_1715_RED_abrowse.jpgLight-toned Layering along Jus Chasma's Wallrock and Plains (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)55 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014329_1435_RED_abrowse.jpgTriple Crater (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)69 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014330_1960_RED_abrowse.jpgIsland-like Features on the Floor of Grjota Valles (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)54 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014333_1715_RED_abrowse.jpgTerra Tyrrhena: Unnamed Crater with Central Uplift and Hydrated Minerals (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)54 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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ESP_014334_0945_RED_abrowse.jpgPolar Layered Deposits Stratigraphy near Chasma Australe (Natural Colors; credits: Lunexit)56 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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