Surface
Some surfaces in Eridania are covered with a mantling unit that is believed to be water ice-rich. In some places the surface displays a pitted or dissected texture; these textures are suggestive of material that once held ice that has since disappeared allowing the remaining soil to collapse into the subsurface.
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