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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The ancient, catastrophic floods on Mars, whose origins remain a mystery, produced a channeled and scoured landscape like this one which is called Tiu Valles. Wind has also played a more recent role, forming mega-ripples (a dune form) in many of the channel grooves.

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Context

Image ID: 
V03883004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
3.4063
332.276
3883
2002-10-29 23:29
Tue, 2002-11-26
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (65 km)
0.017864 km/pixel
0.017994 km/pixel

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