Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Freedom Crater (Released 20 February 2003)

Vital Statistics
Location: 43.3N, 351.3E	Released: 2003-02-20
Image Size: 19.5 x 69.3 km, 1024 x 3648 px
Resolution: 19m	Instrument: VIS

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Image Context:
Context image for 20030220a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20030220a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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Freedom crater, located in Acidalia Planitia, exhibits a concentric ring pattern in its interior, suggesting that there has been some movement of these materials towards the center of the crater. Slumping towards the center may have been caused by the presence of ground ice mixed in with the sediments. The origin for the scarps on the western edge of the interior deposit is unknown.