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Tag Archives: fluvial channels
HiRISE: Smooth and fractured deposits in Eridania valleys
The ancient highland channels in this image empty into the Eridania Basin (not visible), a large topographically low enclosure with smooth-appearing terrains that may have once contained a large paleolake or ancient sea. Water in these channels flowed to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariadnes Basin, channels, Eridania, fluvial channels, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona, valleys
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THEMIS: Channels in Noachis Terra craters
THEMIS Image of the Day, January 11, 2017. This VIS image shows several channels in and around unnamed craters in Noachis Terra. (If the channels look more like tubes or worms, remember that the sunlight is coming from the right … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, channels, fluvial channels, Mars Odyssey, NASA, Noachis Terra, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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THEMIS: Branching channels of Arda Valles
THEMIS Image of the Day, December 29, 2016. Today’s false color image shows some of the many channels that make up Arda Valles. Their shape and meandering courses suggest that they were eroded by flowing streams or rivers. The THEMIS … Continue reading
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Tagged Arda Valles, Arizona State University, ASU, fluvial channels, fluvial erosion, fluvial landforms, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, valley networks
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THEMIS: Channels in Arda Valles
THEMIS Image of the Day, December 15, 2016. The numerous, closely spaced channels in this VIS image are part of Arda Valles. Such valley networks point to flowing streams and rivers in the distant martian past. More THEMIS Images of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arda Valles, Arizona State University, ASU, fluvial channels, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, valley networks
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THEMIS: Channels carving into Claritas Fossae
THEMIS Image of the Day, October 6, 2016. This VIS image shows several channels dissecting the higher elevations of Claritas Fossae. (Sunlight is coming from the right, as the image was taken in local morning, not long after sunrise.) More … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, channels, Claritas Fossae, fluvial channels, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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HiRISE: Channels in crater NE of Hellas Planitia
Channels in crater northeast of Hellas Planitia. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, channels, fluvial channels, Hellas Planitia, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona
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Karun Valles & its braided alluvial fan
Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month, September 29, 2016: Solmaz Adeli (DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin). The Amazonian period on Mars, meaning roughly the last 3 Ga, is globally believed to have been cold and hyperarid [e.g., Marchant and … Continue reading
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Tagged alluvial fan deposits, alluvial fans, Ariadnes Colles, cataracts, fluvial channels, fluvial deposits, fluvial erosion, fluvial landforms, Karun Valles, streamlined islands, Terra Cimmeria
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Mars had lakes & streams long after early wet era
Lakes and snowmelt-fed streams on Mars formed much later than previously thought possible, according to new findings using data primarily from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The recently discovered lakes and streams appeared roughly a billion years after a well-documented, earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabia Terra, fluvial channels, fluvial deposits, fluvial erosion, fluvial landforms, lakes, paleolakes, streamlined islands
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Fossil rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
Extensive systems of fossilised riverbeds have been discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about 4 billion years ago, according to … Continue reading
HiRISE: Ancient streamlined islands of the Palos outflow channel
This image shows the northern terminus of an outflow channel located in the volcanic terrains of Amenthes Planum. The channel sources from the Palos impact crater to the south, where water flowed into the crater from Tinto Vallis and eventually … Continue reading
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Tagged fluvial channels, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, outflow channels, Palos outflow channel, streambeds, streamlined islands, University of Arizona
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