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    The Mountains of Mars

    by Firefoxg
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    Gale Crater is a large, approximately 152 kilometer-diameter impact crater that lies near the Martian equator. Contained within the crater is a massive central mound of layered material. With an average vertical thickness of almost 4 kilometers, the Gale Crater layered deposits are twice as thick as the layers exposed along the Grand Canyon on Earth.

    Shown here is a portion of the mound with an inverted fluvial or river channel. Topographic inversion occurs when sediments are cemented together, forming a harder layer that is resistant to later erosion. This later erosion has preferentially removed material outside the channel, leaving the former riverbed exposed as a ridge—a topographic high. This inverted channel was originally detected by scientists using Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images onboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

    Description Written by: Brad Thomson

    Created by converting the Raw MRO HiRise DTM data into a 3d topographical mesh, and overlaying ultra high resolution meshes on top. https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_009149_1750

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    dizzket
    January 25, 2018
    damn martians and their flying machines
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    dizzket
    January 25, 2018
    there's a martian under this rock
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    by
    dizzket
    January 25, 2018
    wait no this one
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    MrDusk
    January 28, 2018
    Rover Over Ere
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