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Crater-Floor Polygons (Mars)

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Crater-floor polygons comprise networks of fractures on the floors and/or walls of some Martian impact craters (Fig. 1).

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Typical crater-floor polygons. A 14 km-sized crater at 67.2°N, 47.8°E with ubiquitous crater-floor polygons. Right: Sub-image of same crater (El Maarry et al. 2010a). Scale bar 100 m. HiRISE PSP_007372_2475 (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

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  1. Space Research and Planetary Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry

  2. Department of Geography, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada

    Richard Soare

  3. Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Ákos Kereszturi

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El-Maarry, M.R., Soare, R., Kereszturi, Á. (2014). Crater-Floor Polygons (Mars). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_72-2

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