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Indeed, my bad. Seems to be easy to confuse since the crater seems to have the same name "Vastitas Borealis Crater" [0]. Do you know if it's actually called "
by Isinlor 6y ago
Indeed, my bad.
Seems to be easy to confuse since the crater seems to have the same name "Vastitas Borealis Crater" [0].
Do you know if it's actually called "Vastitas Borealis Crater" or is it just simply a crater in the region Vastitas Borealis?
> The 35-kilometre-wide crater sits 70° north of the martian equator, in a low-lying region known as Vastitas Borealis. Previous orbiters have spotted ice deposits in craters, but the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the European probe is the first to return a three-dimensional colour image of an icy spot. The ice may be up to 200 metres thick, and lies over a dune field that has formed in the sediment on the crater's floor. The data were collected on 2 February, and this image was created for Nature last week. [1]
[0] http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2006/10/Residual_water_ice_in_Vastitas_Borealis_Crater http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2006/10/Residual_wa...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/435723b https://www.nature.com/articles/435723b
- ckarmann 6y agoI don't think this one has a specific name. There are a lot of unnamed craters on Mars, even much bigger than this one. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars