• Rock Glacier, Mars
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    This image shows a “rock glacier” east of the giant Hellas Basin. Ice-rich material appears to have flowed from one crater (9 kilometers wide) into another. These glaciers may have formed when the planet’s spin axis was steeply tilted.

    Mars Express, HRSC

  • Rock Glacier, Mars

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WEB13754-2014

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ESA; DLR; FU Berlin (G. Neukum); Kinetikon Pictures

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