A Cataclysmic Upswelling of Groundwater Carved This Channel on Mars

This image from the ESA's Mars Express Orbiter shows the beginning of Shalbatana Vallis, and ancient water channel on Mars. It begins in jumbled chaos terrain in Orson Welles crater and extends for 1300 km across the Martian surface. Image Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin. LICENCE:
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Shalbatana Vallis is a 1300 km water channel on Mars. It was carved out in one cataclysmic flooding event, possibly triggered by a massive impact. It’s more evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars.

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