This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product Ridges and craters, Mars Express image. The ridges are bisected

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This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product Ridges and craters, Mars Express image. The ridges are bisected by crustal displacement faults (en-echelon faults, far left). At lower right is a large impact crater with a butterfly-shaped fluidised ejecta blanket. These features are in the Melas Dorsa region of Mars (image centre at around 18 degrees S, 288 degrees E). Data obtained by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express, on 17 April 2012 during orbit 10532. The European Space Agency's Mars Express has been orbiting Mars since December 2003. For the same image with the elevations colour-coded with a Digital Terrain Model (DTM), see C023/2975.

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