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‘Hourglass’ shaped craters filled with traces of glacier
18 March 2005
| This unusual structure with traces of a glacier is located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East. A so-called ‘block’ glacier, flowed from a flank of the massif, past mountains several thousand metres high, into a bowl-shaped impact crater (left), nine kilometres wide, which has been filled nearly to the rim. The block glacier then flowed into a 17 kilometre wide crater, 500 metres below, taking advantage of downward slope.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | |  |  | |
| | | | | A map showing these features in context, located in Promethei Terra at the
eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude
104º East.
Credits: FU Berlin/MOLANEW | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | A 3D view of this unusual structure with traces of a glacier, located in Promethei Terra at the eastern rim of the Hellas Basin, at about latitude 38º South and longitude 104º East. North is to the left.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
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