Stunning Mars Landslides Captured In Incredible NASA Image [PHOTO]

A landslide on the planet Mars was captured on camera by NASA in a stunning new image released today.

The new image, which was taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 24, shows material tumbling down steep slopes on the Red Planet. The area shown in the photo is called Cerberus Fossae, which is believed to be the youngest fault system on Mars.

According to NASA's website, this Mars area is a "steep-sided set of troughs cutting volcanic plains to the east of Elysium Mons." Steep slopes such as the Cerberus Fossae often experience "mass wasting" or active landslides.

The image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals evidence of two different landslides happening at the same time.

First, there are larger boulders that appear light blue against the dark blue background. The boulders are believed to have originally been at the uppermost layer of bedrock, which appear as the thin layer of blue near the top of the photo.

The second landslide is evidenced by the narrow, dark lines across the blue rock that comprise of smaller particles of rock. Scientists said these lines show downslope movement.

Scientists are still in the process of figuring out how mass wasting plays out across the Martian surface and over the Red Planet's seasonal cycle.

Meanwhile, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been obtaining images and data of the Red Planet since it began its orbit in 2006. Aside from the Cerberus Fossae landsides, the HiRISE camera also recently captured an image of a crater with sand in Mars' Amazonis Planitia.

"Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars, as we can attest with this lonely and isolated crater in otherwise very flat terrain," read the caption of the image on HiRISE's official Twitter page.

Earlier today, NASA also released two more images taken by HiRISE showing an area in Mars riddled with impact craters.

"This region in Margaritifer Chaos is located in a system of finger-like rifts and cracked surfaces stretching south from what appear to be three impact craters," the image caption read.