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heavily cratered region of Callisto

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False-colour picture of Memnonia Fossae, near Tharsis.The craters in the upper and lower halves of the image are separated by a radial valley produced by volcanic and tectonic activity. The colour variations represent the effects of wind, water, and lava flows.

Martian surface near the equator. The right half of the picture is dominated by craters; the lighter areas on the left are channels that were probably caused by water runoff from the west (left). This false-colour composite picture is based on high-resolution black-and-white and low-resolution colour images taken by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 spacecraft.

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Ash cloud rising from the Kilauea Volcano Pu`u `O `o as crater floor collapses due to magma withdrawal. Incandescent rubble can be seen crumbling and rolling down the scarp. East rim of Pu`u `O `o is in the foreground, Kilauea, Hawaii on March 6, 2011.

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Meteor Crater, Arizona

Crater Lake, Oregon

Lake Coatepeque

heavily cratered region of Callisto

sand dunes on Mars

False-colour picture of Memnonia Fossae, near Tharsis.The craters in the upper and lower halves of the image are separated by a radial valley produced by volcanic and tectonic activity. The colour variations represent the effects of wind, water, and lava flows.

Martian surface near the equator. The right half of the picture is dominated by craters; the lighter areas on the left are channels that were probably caused by water runoff from the west (left). This false-colour composite picture is based on high-resolution black-and-white and low-resolution colour images taken by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 spacecraft.

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Mercury: double-ringed crater

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Ash cloud rising from the Kilauea Volcano Pu`u `O `o as crater floor collapses due to magma withdrawal. Incandescent rubble can be seen crumbling and rolling down the scarp. East rim of Pu`u `O `o is in the foreground, Kilauea, Hawaii on March 6, 2011.

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