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It's geology's fault: the Cerberus Crack
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Geological faulting has opened what is known as the Cerberus Crack - a 60 miles long canyon which cuts through mesas and plains on Mars. This image is composed of data captured from May 2002 to July 2004 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
July 31, 2012 8:23 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
| Caption by: James Martin
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