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-Pollack Crater is an impact crater in the [[Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle]] of [[Mars]], located at 7.9&deg; S and 334.8&deg; W.  It is 96.0 km in diameter and was named after James B.Pollack, an American physicist (1938-1994).<ref>http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov</ref> Pollack Crater contains a large light toned deposit that was once thought to be a salt deposit.  It is not really that light, the surrounding rocks are exceptionally dark and that makes this deposit appear white.
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-== White Rock ==
-Our ideas about "White Rock" have changed as we studied it with better instruments.  Mars has an old surface.  Much of Earth's land surface is just a few hundred million years old.  In contrast, large areas of Mars are billions of years old.  Some surface areas have been formed, eroded away, then covered over with new layers of rocks.  The [[Mariner 9]] spacecraft in the 1970's photographed a feature that was called "White Rock."  It was thought that this feature could have been a salt deposit, but information from the instruments on [[Mars Global Surveyor]] demonstrated rather that it was probably volcanic ash or dust.  Today, it is believed that White Rock represents an old rock layer that once filled the whole crater that it's in, but today it has since been mostly been eroded away.  The picture below shows white rock with a spot of the same rock some distance from the main deposit, so it is thought that the white material once covered a far larger area. <ref>http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_daily_020419.html</ref>
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-Image:Whiterock.JPG|Whiterock on crater floor may be what's left of a much larger deposit.  Arrow shows that the deposit once reached much farther.  Picture taken by [[THEMIS]].
-Image:Pollack Crater White Rock.jpg|White Rock in [[Pollack Crater]] as seen by [[HiRISE]].
-Image:Close-up of Pollack Crater White Rock.JPG|Enlargement of White Rock in Pollack Crater, as seen by HiRISE.
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