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| Recent Hubble Mars picture |
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The Rest of the Story: Scars of Mars by Stephen Marshak

Olympus Mons |
The Voyager mission of the 1990s have provided incredibly
detailed images of Mars. After comparing landscape features on Mars
with those found on Earth, planetary geologists have identified
huge slump scars on Mars (see image on the left). These scars, located
along the edge of Olympus Mons (a large shield volcano) and along
the edge of Valles Marineris (a large valley), probably formed during
times when the permafrost on Mars had melted and liquid water flowed
on the planet's surface. As happen on Earth, the moving water undercut
cliffs, which then collapsed in huge mass-movement events.? |
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