Perspective view along a valley in Hellas Planitia, extending from north to south
Perspective view along a valley in Hellas Planitia, extending from north to south
This image shows a variety of landscape forms in the southern section of the Hellas basin; massive quantities of water have hollowed out the valley extending to the mountain ridge located in the foreground of the picture. In many places there are pockets of carbon dioxide frost – traces of winter and the bitterly cold temperatures it brings to the southern hemisphere.
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