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Knobby Eastern Arabia

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows knobs and buttes of an eroded landscape north of the crater, Antoniadi, in far eastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA03978
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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Description

2 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.4 meters per pixel (~5 ft/pixel) view of an eroded landscape north of the crater, Antoniadi, in far eastern Arabia Terra. Each knob and butte in this image is a remnant of a formerly more-extensive layered rock unit that has been largely eroded away.

Location near: 84.2°S, 138.3°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season Southern Spring