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Old Crater Bottom

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a circular mesa that is the remains of an old crater bottom. The crater was mostly washed away by floods that poured from the southeast toward the northwest in the Mangala Valles system of Mars.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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14 May 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a circular mesa that is the remains of an old crater bottom. The crater was mostly washed away by floods that poured from the southeast (lower right) toward the northwest (upper left) in the Mangala Valles system.

Location near: 16.4°S, 150.3°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Spring

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