"Softened" Impact Craters on Mars: Impli
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David G. Jankowski; Steven W. Squyres
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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"Terrain softening" is a distinct style of landform degradation observed on Mars. The morphology and distribution of softened terrain have led to the hypothesis that it is the result of quasiviscous relaxation of topology due to the creep deformation of subsurface ice. In order to test this hypothes