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Tag Archives: thumbprint terrain
HiRISE: For your consideration
For your consideration. An alien landscape with dust devil streaks and craters slowing fading away into the mists of time. A twilight zone of geology, if you will. (Features like this are often called “thumbprint terrain”.) HiRISE Picture of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Diacria, dust devil tracks, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, northern lowlands, northern plains, thumbprint terrain, University of Arizona
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Did impact-generated tsunamis make ‘thumbprint terrain’?
Thirty years ago, during a 3-month long visit to the U.S. Geological Survey in Arizona, Francois Costard saw Viking orbiter images of Mars’s northern plains showing strange curving features along the boundary between the Martian northern and southern hemispheres. Costard, … Continue reading
THEMIS: South polar textures
THEMIS Image of the Day, October 7, 2014. While yesterday’s VIS image showed a texture of oval depressions (Swiss cheese), today’s VIS image shows a linear surface texture of the south polar cap. This texture is described as looking like … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, CO2 ice, ice caps, Mars Odyssey, NASA, south polar ice cap, THEMIS, Thermal Emission Imaging System, thumbprint terrain
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