Streamlined Hills of Maja Vallis

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Classic catastrophic flood morphology (streamlined hills and longitudinal grooves) is captured in this image of Lunae Planum. Similar features (although much smaller in size) are seen in terrestrial catastrophic flood regions such as Channeled Scabland of Washington state and in Iceland.

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Context

Image ID: 
V05869020 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
14.7633
301.757
5869
2003-04-11 10:51
Fri, 2003-05-16
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (66 km)
0.018102 km/pixel
0.018234 km/pixel

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