Topographic overview map of the Arabia Terra region on Mars, featuring Trouvelot Crater
Topographic overview map of the Arabia Terra region on Mars, featuring Trouvelot Crater
Arabia Terra is an extensive transitional zone between the southern Martian highlands and the northern lowlands of Chryse Planitia and Vastitas Borealis. It is characterised by numerous impact craters, some over 200 kilometres in diameter, which formed more than 3.5 billion years ago. In the colour-coded topographic overview map, these craters are easily identifiable as dark blue, circular depressions within the green-coloured highlands. Among them is Trouvelot Crater, presented here: it has a diameter of nearly 150 kilometres and was imaged on 12 October 2024 by the HRSC camera system aboard the ESA Mars Express probe.
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NASA/JPL/MOLA | FU Berlin