Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Tiu Valles (Released 26 November 2002)

Vital Statistics
Location: 3.4N, 332.3E	Released: 2002-11-26
Image Size: 18.4 x 65.7 km, 1024 x 3648 px
Resolution: 18m	Instrument: VIS

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Image Context:
Context image for 20021126a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20021126a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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The ancient, catastrophic floods on Mars, whose origins remain a mystery, produced a channeled and scoured landscape like this one which is called Tiu Valles. Wind has also played a more recent role, forming mega-ripples (a dune form) in many of the channel grooves.