Slopes
Slopes
Mars; Spacecraft: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO); Instrument: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE); Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on the steep slopes of Mars. However, these slopes often experience rockfalls and debris avalanches that keep the surface clean of dust, revealing a variety of hues, like in this color image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, representing different rock types. The long streamers of material are from downslope movements. Also revealed in this slope are a variety of bedrock textures, with a mix of layered and jumbled deposits. This sample is typical of the Martian highlands, with lava flows and water-lain materials depositing layers, then broken up and jumbled by many impact events.