Action Picture: Landslide on Mars

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Action Picture: Landslide on Mars

Post by iamlucky13 » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:19 pm

I was rather amazed when I saw this one. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught a landslide in action on a Martian cliff! Check out the dust roiling up at the base.

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Original source. Check out "wallpapers" at the bottom of the right-hand column for larger versions of the same frame.

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007338_2640
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