21 Aug, 2019
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Gold (crater)
Gold is a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars. It was named after a town in Potter County, Pennsylvania in 1976.
Gold is famous as being one of several craters showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water from Ares Vallis on Mars.
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CTX camera image
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Enlargement showing Gold
References
- ^ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | Gold". usgs.gov. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ NASA SP-441: VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS, Viking Orbiter Imaging Team, 1980, Channels
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