NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently captured some remarkable images of the Red Planet’s surface. The orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, managed to take remarkable pictures of Ares Vallis, one of the largest outflow channels on the Martian surface. Ares Vallis is a 2,000 km long and 400 km wide river-like formation that is thought to have been formed by catastrophic floods over 3 billion years ago. The images show the intricate and detailed features of the landscape, including the branching of the channel and the eroded, layered deposits of the sediment.

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source: Phys.org