The south polar residual cap is constantly changing as carbon dioxide sublimates from steep slopes, enlarging pits, and condenses on flat areas, filling pits.

Sometimes the strange landscape produces something that looks familiar, like the mascot of a certain peanut company, who recently died in a commercial, and was “creamated” according to “Saturday Night Live.”

At least, he still has Mars.

ID: ESP_067961_0925
date: 24 January 2021
altitude: 244 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_067961_0925
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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