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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The channel form at the top of this VIS image is part of Tiu Valles. The impact crater has affected the course of the channel, as has the small hill at the top of the image. This type of feature, a hill with a teardrop shaped section, is called a streamline island. The hill interrupts the fluid flow, creating eddies on the downstream side where the flow velocity lessens and it is unable to erode as easily as in the main part of the channel. The teardrop points downstream. Located in Margaritifer Terra, Tiu Valles is part of a large system of channels that arise from Vallis Marineris and flow northward to empty into Chryse Planitia.

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Context

Image ID: 
V86527022 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
16.6616
325.954
86527
2021-06-16 22:38
Wed, 2021-11-24
VIS
1024 pixels (19 km)
3648 pixels (67 km)
0.018476 km/pixel
0.0190534 km/pixel

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