Lipik (Martian crater)

Lipik Crater is a crater in the Hellas quadrangle of Mars, located at 38.42° S and 248.43° W. It is 56 km in diameter and was named after Lipik, a town in Croatia.^[1] Close-up pictures of the crater show glacial features. The crater is not very deep, so much ice and dust may have accumulated over the years. If one measures the diameter of a crater, the original depth can be estimated with various ratios. Because of this relationship, researchers have found that many Martian craters contain a great deal of material; much of it is believed to be ice deposited when the climate was different. ^[2]

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  Western side of Lipik Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Arrow points to a tongue-shaped glacier that is enlarged in next image.
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  Tongue-shaped glacier in Lipik Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of previous image.
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  Lipik Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
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  Enlargement of northern wall of Lipik, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Many tongue-shaped glaciers are visible. Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image.

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See also

• Climate of Mars
• Glacier
• Glaciers on Mars
• Impact crater
• Impact event
• List of craters on Mars
• Ore resources on Mars
• Planetary nomenclature
• Water on Mars