Explore swirling deposits on Mars.
The swirling and looping texture is typical of the deposits on the floor of the Hellas impact basin in the Southern Hemisphere of Red Planet.
Hellas is one of the largest identified impact craters, both on Mars and within the Solar System. The exact reason for its origin is a puzzle however, and could be attributed to one of many different processes: salt tectonism, or viscous deformation of ice and sediments, for example.
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