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Landslides in Coprates Chasma

Landslides in Coprates Chasma

Landslides in Coprates Chasma
This was submitted through HiWish by a class studying Mars: “What we targeted here shows evidence of mass wasting processes. We can see an obvious downslope of land due to gravity or even high pressure flows of water [in the past]. There could even be evidence of possible ancient lakes or rivers due to some of the surrounding upward slopes.”

ID: ESP_076159_1685
date: 25 October 2022
altitude: 259 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076159_1685
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Black & white is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km. For full observation details, visit the ID link.