Mars' Northern Polar Ice Cap (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Mars' Northern Polar Ice Cap

Caption

This is a view of the north polar region of Mars from orbit. The ice-rich polar cap (quasi-circular white area at center) is about 1,000 km across. It is bisected by a large canyon, Chasma Boreale, on the right side. Dark, spiral-shaped bands are troughs. Chasma Boreale is about the length of the Grand Canyon in the US and up to 2 km deep.

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NASA/Caltech/JPL/E. DeJong/J. Craig/M. Stetson

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