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Mars: Happy face crater

author: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin-G. Neukum/Novapix

reference: a-mar09-00071

Image Size 300 DPI: 45 * 55 cm

The High Resolution Stereo Camera onboard ESA's Mars Express has obtained a multiple image coverage of Galle Crater, an impact crater located on the eastern rim of the Argyre Planitia impact basin at 51° southern latitude and 329° eastern longitude. Several images have been mosaicked to obtain a seamless image mosaic of the 230 km-diameter impact crater. Galle crater is informally known as "Happy Face" crater. Its interior shows a surface which is shaped by aeolian activity as seen in numerous dunes and dark dust devil tracks which removed the bright dusty surface coating.

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2006 - ARGYRE - ARGYRE PLANITIA - ASTRONOMY - CRATER - DUNE - DUST DEVILS - DUST STORM - GALLE - IMPACT CRATER - MARS - MARS EXPRESS - PLANET - POSTER - SEDIMENT -