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Martian Volcano Ulysses Patera

Description This composite image made from Viking orbiter images shows the martian volcano Ulysses Patera. This picture was used to analyze a crater found on the slopes of Ulysses Patera by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in the late 1990s. In this picture from around 1976, there is no crater where the arrow points in this picture but there is one in the more recent pictures.

 

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Credit: NASA/JPL

Image Number: PIA04292_fig3

Date: 1976

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