The Eroded Floor of Ares Vallis

Eroded and littered with dozens of impact craters! Ares Vallis is an outflow channel and was the landing site of NASA’s Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, which studied a region of the valley in 1997.

ID: ESP_054450_1935
date: 9 March 2018
altitude: 279 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_054450_1935
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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