Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Remnants of Lost Geology (Released 5 February 2003)

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Location: 20.5N, 50.0E	Released: 2003-02-05
Image Size: 18.4 x 65.7 km, 1024 x 3648 px
Resolution: 18m	Instrument: VIS

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Image Context:
Context image for 20030205a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20030205a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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In eastern Arabia Terra, remnants of a once vast layered terrain are evident as isolated buttes, mesas, and deeply- filled craters. The origin of the presumed sediments that created the layers is unknown, but those same sediments, now eroded, may be the source of the thick mantle of dust that covers much of Arabia Terra today.