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| Keywords: Pickering crater p54.jpg Pickering crater on Mars This is a figure on p 54 of NASA SP-441 VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS which has the following caption <br> Extensive Lava Flows from Arsia Mons The flows that erupted from Arsia Mons extend some 1500 km away from the summit and bury the older cratered terrain of the southern hemisphere Flow fronts are visible within the large crater Pickering 120-km-diameter where they have been diverted around high ground associated with the central peak of the crater Flows of this type associated with the big volcanoes may have lengths in excess of 1000 km and may resemble the large flows found in Mare Imbrium on the Moon The discovery of these flows on the outer flanks of the major volcanoes on Mars has shown that the basal diameter of many of these volcanoes is considerably larger than was suspected from Mariner 9 data 56A12; 34°S 133°W Viking program Orbiter image <br>The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U S Government NASA <br/> Immediate source http //history nasa gov/SP-441/contents htm NASA SP-441 VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS Viking Orbiter Imaging Team 1980 http //history nasa gov/SP-441/p54 htm p54 published 1980 NASA<br/> PD-USGov Original upload log en wikipedia Pickering_crater_p54 jpg wikitable - 2014-04-28 00 35 533×613× 54202 bytes Jstuby <nowiki> Pickering crater on Mars This is a figure on p 54 of NASA SP-441 VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS which has the following caption <br> Extensive Lava Flows from Arsia Mons The flows that erupted from Arsia M </nowiki> Pickering Martian crater | ||||
