warm-season flows on a slope in Mars's Newton Crater

Name: warm-season flows on a slope in Mars's Newton Crater
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Description: Warm-season flows on a slope in Newton Crater on Mars, showing what might be evidence of salty liquid water active on the planet's surface. From photographs taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Warm-season flows on a slope in Newton Crater on Mars, showing what might be evidence of salty liquid water active on the planet's surface. From photographs taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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