Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Catches a Polar Avalanche

Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Tons of ice and dust cascade down a 2,300-ft.-tall cliff at the edge of the ice cap surrounding the north pole of Mars in this image collected by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The false-color image, part of a larger scene...

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