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Chaos Terrain

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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows chaos terrain on Mars' equator.

This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows chaos terrain on Mars’ equator.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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The map below is projected here at a scale of 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) per pixel.
[The original image scale is 54.5 centimeters (21.5 inches) per pixel (with 2 x 2 binning); objects on the order of 164 centimeters (64.6 inches) across are resolved.] North is up.

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