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Ice Sculptures Fill The Deepest Parts of Mars
Curious “lava lamp” landforms in Mars' Hellas Basin may have been created by ice. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
One of the “weirdest and least understood” areas of Mars, the enormous Hellas Impact Basin contains strange flowing landforms bespeaks of some specialized geologic process having taken place. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured the image above, showing what’s being called “lava lamp terrain” — stretched and contorted surface that looks like overworked modeling clay or pulled taffy… or, with a bit of imagination, the melted, mesmerizing contents of a party light from another era.
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Post tags: basin, Hellas, HiRISE, ice, Mars, MRO, Solar System, Water on Mars
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