Degradation of Mid-latitude Craters on Mars
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Preservation of layered paleodeposits in high-latitude pedestal craters on Mars
0019-1035/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.029 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 401 863 3978. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.J. Kadi An outstanding question in Mars’ climate history is whether or not pedestal craters represent the armored remnants of ice-rich paleodeposits. We address this question using new high-resolution images; in a survey of sev...
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