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Sliding Terrains and Dislocated Plates in Amazonis Planitia (Mars) as the Result of Instability of a Frozen Martian Ocean

  • Authors: Fabio Vittorio De Blasio

Fabio Vittorio De Blasio 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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(a) Analysis of the terrain between the light grooves and the dark terrain. (b) HiRISE magnification of the area shows the difference between the terrain of the light grooves, which appears smooth and disturbed mostly by impact craters, and the dark terrain, with numerous pits resembling ice melt pools. (c) In this field full of the interesting features as indicated, a crater responsible for the inception of one groove (“ice-scraping crater”) was evidently created before the displacement of the ice blocks occurred.

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