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#PPOD: When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the surface. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured these dust avalanches on the slopes the night before Christmas in 2023. This image also shows the faint cluster of impact craters in the discoloured region at the base of the slopes. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS

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Photo taken from space of a cliff on Mars that runs from the upper left to the lower right. All along the cliff are perpendicular dark streaks of fine dust that were shaken loose by a meteroid impact. At the base of the slope can also be seen some small impact craters.

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#PPOD: When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the surface. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured these dust avalanches on the slopes the night before Christmas in 2023. This image also shows the faint cluster of impact craters in the discoloured region at the base of the slopes. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS

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