Saturday 24 May 2008

Channels, Craters and Phoenix's Landing Site From MRO


Source: Universe Today

The HiRISE camera of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter obtained this false color image of a water-carved channel in the Nili Fossae region on Mars. MRO's spectrometer, CRISM has detected water-bearing clay minerals in these plains, which were eroded for thousands of millions of years by flows down the channel. (read more)

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