Flooded Crater in Terra Sirenum

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The floor of this crater displays interesting textures and it appears to have been flooded by some type of material. It is unclear if this material was fluvially emplaced mud (hyper- concentrated flows) or lava. However, there are no volcanic constructs in the immediate region and the fact that the crater rim was breached by Labou Vallis to the east (see regional view in image context) suggests that this material may indeed be mudflows.

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Context

Image ID: 
V05249002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-9.7534
207.559
5249
2003-02-19 08:07
Thu, 2003-03-20
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (63 km)
0.017426 km/pixel
0.017552 km/pixel

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