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.

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