Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS: Feature Image: Channel to Nowhere (Released 22 May 2003)

Vital Statistics
Location: 20.9N, 105.0E	Released: 2003-05-22
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 20030522a

Wide Context:
Wide context image for 20030522a

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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A channel-like feature roughly halfway between the Isidis Basin and Elysium Mons shows no connection to either a source region or terminal basin. It may be that this feature is not a channel at all and has instead arisen from the erosion of a once continuous layer of material into remnants that mimic a channel.