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WATER AROUND MARTIAN CRATER
Water on Mars. Computer artwork looking south-west over water in and around the Pettit Crater on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. The crater is around 100 kilometres across, and is situated in the Amazonis Planitia (Amazon Plain) region of Mars. Mars is now a desert world, but erosion features seen on Mars today suggest that water once flowed there. The water was lost due to the thin Martian atmosphere and weak gravity. The topography of this artwork was drawn with Terragen software, using data from the laser altimeter on the Mars Global Surveyor probe. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/KEES VEENENBOS)
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COPYRIGHTPFLICHTIG
License
Rights Managed
Date created
20030122
Place
Credit
KEYSTONE
Source
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY SPL
Byline
KEES VEENENBOS
Size
2400 x 1800 px
File type
JPEG