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Layers Exposed at Polar Canyon on Mars

author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona/Novapix

reference: a-mar11-00010

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 85 cm

This false-color subframe of an image from the HIRISE(High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the north polar layered deposits at top and darker materials at bottom, exposed in a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large canyon eroded into the layered deposits.

Keywords for this photo:

2006 - ASTRONOMY - CANYON - CHASMA BOREALE - CLIMATE - FALSE COLOR - GEOLOGY - HIRISE - ICE - MARS - MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER - MRO - NORTH POLE - PLANET - POLE - POSTER -