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Tag Archives: rockfalls
HiRISE: Hues in a crater slope
Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on steep slopes. However, these slopes often experience rockfalls and debris avalanches that keep the surface clean of dust, revealing a variety of hues, like in this enhanced-color image, representing different rock types. The … Continue reading
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Tagged debris flows, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, mass wasting, MRO, NASA, rockfalls, University of Arizona
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Watch for falling rocks
A new investigation of Cerberus Fossae using HiRISE images shows that Mars is probably seismically active now or in the recent past. The clues are tracks left by boulders as they rolled downhill. Gerald Roberts (University of London) and colleagues … Continue reading
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Tagged Athabasca Valles, boulders, Cerberus Fossae, Elysium, fractures, graben, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, marsquakes, rockfalls, wind
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