Inverted Crater on Mars

Beautiful image from a beautiful world right next door just waiting to be explored and colonized.

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Inverted Crater on Mars

It might look like an oddly circular iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean. But this is actually a crater turned inside-out by time in the Arabia Terra region of Mars.

Scientists think such inverted craters form when an impact basin fills with sediment and the material around that sediment gets eroded away.

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