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Mars Has Bizarre "Swiss Cheese" Terrain. You can Thank Water, Carbon Dioxide and 500,000 years of Climate History for That


pace, regions of Mars around the south pole have a bizarre, pitted "Swiss cheese" appearance. These formations come from alternating massive deposits of CO2 ice and water ice, similar to different layers of a cake.

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