Flying over Becquerel crater
Becquerel crater is 167 km in diameter and lies in the Arabia Terra region on Mars, on the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands. This movie shows the location of Becquerel crater on Mars and then provides a flyover of a mound of layered, sulphatebearing deposits on the crater floor, thought to have formed under the influence of water. The darker material surrounding the mound is windblown dust from a source to the north, and provides evidence for effects of wind in eroding the sed
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