HiPOD: Mars Mysteries: Unveiling the Icy Craters

In some cases, these patchy icy deposits and meter-sized blocks of ice are thrown out of the crater and form part of the ejecta. This image shows one such example of a 13-meter (43 feet) diameter crater in Arcadia Planitia where ice was exposed both in the crater interior and ejecta.

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_025840_2240
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