Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Shalbatana/Simud Vallis Junction (Released 10 January 2003)

Vital Statistics
Location: 16.0N, 317.4E	Released: 2003-01-10
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 20030110a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20030110a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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The sinuous channels and streamlined islands at the junction of Shalbatana and Simud Vallis present an erosional history of the catastrophic floods that scoured the Martian surface hundreds of millions of years ago.