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(b)
(c)
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Figure 5.4
Mars landing sites: (a) impact-gardened basaltic plain with aeolian drifts, Chryse Planita (
Viking 1
panorama); (b)
deflated ejecta blanket from Mie crater, Utopia Planita (
Viking 2
panorama); (c) outwash deposit of Ares Vallis with possible boulder
imbrication and potentially water scoured hills (
Pathfinder
panorama); (d) bedrock outcrops, Columbia Hills, Gusev Crater (
Spirit
image); (e) fractured evaporitic bedrock overlain by dunes of dark basaltic sand, Erebus Crater, Meridiani Planum (
Opportunity
image); (f) polygonal terrain of Vasitas Borealis (
Phoenix
image). All photos NASA.