k Thermokarst landscape on Mars, MRO image Thermokarst landscape on Mars, satellite image. This landscape includes features thought to have formed due to the influences of liquid water and ice. Examples are polygonal patterns of troughs and large scallopshaped depressions. Fractures appear when icerich soil contracts each winter. Collectively, such landforms are referred to as thermokarst. These observations were made by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment HiRISE camera on NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO spacecraft. Image published in 2013. Stock Photo - Afloimages
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Thermokarst landscape on Mars, MRO image Thermokarst landscape on Mars, satellite image. This landscape includes features thought to have formed due to the influences of liquid water and ice. Examples are polygonal patterns of troughs and large scallop shaped depressions. Fractures appear when ice rich soil contracts each winter. Collectively, such landforms are referred to as  thermokarst . These observations were made by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment  HiRISE  camera on NASA s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter  MRO  spacecraft. Image published in 2013.
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Thermokarst landscape on Mars, MRO image

Thermokarst landscape on Mars, satellite image. This landscape includes features thought to have formed due to the influences of liquid water and ice. Examples are polygonal patterns of troughs and large scallop-shaped depressions. Fractures appear when ice-rich soil contracts each winter. Collectively, such landforms are referred to as 'thermokarst'. These observations were made by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft. Image published in 2013.

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