Martian landscape. This HiRISE image shows landforms on the surface of and lava flows on the Tharsis Plateau, east of Olympus Mons. The simplest hypothesis is that the lava carved the channels, but it is not readily understood how lava can deeply erode into bedrock. The generally favoured hypothesis is that water carved the channels, and later eruptions of lava followed the already-carved channels, or maybe lava and water flows were interleaved in time. Image shows terrain less than 5 km (3 mi) across. A unique optimised version of NASA imagery. Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona

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Size: 10240px × 4310px
Location: Mars, Tharsis Plateau, east of Olympus Mons
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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