Martian surface. Artwork of the Terra Sirenum area in Mars' southern hemisphere, which is dominated by old, heavily cratered highlands. The large crat

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Martian surface. Artwork of the Terra Sirenum area in Mars' southern hemisphere, which is dominated by old, heavily cratered highlands. The large crater with a central peak at upper right near the horizon is Liu Hsin, with a diameter of 130 kilometres. Just beyond Liu Hsin is the southern rim of a much larger crater Copernicus, with a diameter of 290 kilometres. At left high altitude cirrus clouds of water ice crystals have formed in the carbon dioxide atmosphere.

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Size: 4850px × 3638px
Photo credit: © WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: artwork, astrogeology, astronomical, astronomy, cirrus, clouds, copernicus, crater, craters, exogeology, geology, hemisphere, highlands, hsin, illustration, landscape, liu, mars, planet, planetary, red, science, sirenum, solar, southern, surface, system, terra, terrestrial