Chryse Chaos

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows part of Chryse Chaos near the terminal end of the huge outflow channels draining from Valles Marineris into the Chyrse Basin. Chaos terrain is typified by regions of blocky, often steep sided, mesas interspersed with deep valleys. With time and erosion the valleys widen and the mesas become smaller. It has been proposed that a catastrophic outflow of subsurface water creates the chaos and provides the surface flow creating the channel. Chaos terrain is also found along the course of most of channels in this region and may occur where the channel flow fluid warms the subsurface ice creating additional release points for melted subsurface ice. The chaos terrain in this image still retain the classic steep sided large mesas.

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Context

Image ID: 
V78179003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
13.0698
319.552
78179
2019-07-30 13:47
Fri, 2019-09-06
VIS
512 pixels (18 km)
1824 pixels (66 km)
0.036591 km/pixel
0.0369921 km/pixel

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