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Martian Spectacles

June 19, 2006
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pair of partially-buried impact craters which are being exhumed on a plain east of Hellas in the Promethei Terra region Mars.

19 June 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a pair of partially-buried impact craters which are being exhumed on a plain east of Hellas in the Promethei Terra region Mars.

Location near: 45.5°S, 256.5°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Autumn

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