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Hydrate-rich terrain
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NASA says this image shows possible hydrate-rich terrain. The HiRise camera can show details as small as 1 meter across, even though the orbiter it's riding on is somewhere between 125 and 250 miles above the surface. Like human eyes, HiRise operates in visible light, but it also works at near-infrared wavelengths to investigate mineral groups.
September 4, 2009 10:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings
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