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HiPOD 18 Jul 23: Scarps and Pits
Some areas of Mars show a kind of selective erosion. In this image, an overlapping pit formed between one level of the surface and another. One idea is that the ground once contained significant amounts of ice in layers a few meters thick that have evaporated. Without the ice, the ground surface subsides and collapses down to a new and somewhat level surface.
