HiRISE: Cored island

tumblr_pbo9yix6gX1rlz4gso1_1280Cored island. This channel may have been used by both lava and water. One of the processes produced a crater-cored island and later, the downstream side was eroded away, leaving knobs and an inverted streamlined form.

Beautiful Mars series. [More at links]

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