Landslides in an ancient impact crater
Landslides in an ancient impact crater
On the steep slopes inside this roughly 1500-metre-deep and 17-kilometre-wide crater, numerous landslides have occurred that have aggregated in places on the crater floor. The morphology of this crater with its striking rim stands in stark contrast to the already heavily eroded rim of the somewhat larger crater in the background. The interior of that crater has been covered by a flat layer of sediments, which were presumably deposited by the lower course of the valleys from Tagus Valles.
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