File:Polygonal Patterned Ground - Flickr - UAHiRISE (NASA).jpg
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From a distance, the floor of this crater looks like a giant honeycomb or spider web. The intersecting shapes, or polygons, commonly occur in the northern lowlands of Mars. The polygons in this “patterned ground” are easy to see because their edges are bound by troughs or ridges covered by bright frost relative to their darker, frost-free interiors. Patterned ground on Mars is thought to form as the result of cyclic thermal contraction cracking in the permanently frozen ground. Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 314 km (195 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona |
| Date | Taken on 12 March 2024, 15:07 |
| Source | Polygonal Patterned Ground |
| Author | UAHiRISE (NASA) |
| Flickr tags | mars, nasa, science, astronomy, lpl, hirise, geology, university of arizona, ua, uarizona |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by UAHiRISE (NASA) at https://flickr.com/photos/71688597@N05/53584526080. It was reviewed on 18 March 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero. |
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