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Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars

 
Acidalia Planitia and Tempe Terra transition
 
Acidalia Planitia and Tempe Terra transition

 
ESA's Mars Express has returned images of a region on the Red Planet that appears to have been sculpted in part by flowing liquid. This again adds to the growing evidence that Mars had large volumes of water on its surface in the distant past.

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Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Cratered Acidalia Planitia This false colour image shows a region with craters of different ages located at the margin of Acidalia Planitia.

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Latitude 39.9 Longitude350.4E (9.6W)

The image was collected during the Northern Spring season by the THEMIS VIS camera aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft in orbit around Mars.




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