HiRISE Camera Reveals Rare Polar Martian Impact Craters
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 13:07
in Astronomy & Space
An odd, solitary hill rising part-way down an eroding slope in Mars' north polar layered terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggest scientists who studied the feature in a new, detailed image from the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.