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Winter In Argyre

Perspective view of Hooke crater in Argyre basin
Perspective view of Hooke crater in Argyre basin
EU–(ENEWSPF)–19 September 2014.  Over billions of years, the southern uplands of Mars have been pockmarked by numerous impact features, which are often so closely packed that they overlap. One such feature is Hooke crater, shown in this frost-tinged scene, imaged by ESA’s Mars Express during winter in the southern hemisphere.
Hooke crater context
Hooke crater context

Hooke crater is located near the northern edge of the 1800 km-wide Argyre basin…

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