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Photo of the DayJanuary 8, 2007
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Mars, 2000
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
"An artful view from space reveals a bracelet-like chain of shallow pits lining a trough created by faulting. The collapse zone appears on a flank of the Pavonis Mons volcano. Some 530 yards (475 meters) wide, the depression could have resulted from the underground movement of molten rock."

(Text and photograph from "A Mars Never Dreamed Of," February 2001, National Geographic magazine)

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