Mars Express Orbiter Snaps Image Of River-Like Formation On Surface Below
Source: redOrbit.com
Mars Express Orbiter Snaps Image Of River-Like Formation On Surface Below
January 18, 2013
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express has offered up a high-resolution photo of a river-like structure on Mars. The spacecraft used its high-resolution stereo camera last year to snap an image of Reull Vallis on the Red Planet.
Reull Vallis is a river-like structure believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past.
The ancient river bed cuts a steep-sided channel through the Promethei Terra Highlands before it runs towards the floor of the Hellas basin.
ESA said that the structure stretches for almost a thousand miles across the martian landscape, and is flanked by a number of tributaries. In fact, one of the tributaries can be clearly seen cutting into the main valley towards the upper north side, the space agency said.
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