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Sand Sources Near Athabasca Valles
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This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small channel cutting into young volcanic lavas in a region where massive catastrophic flooding took place in the relatively recent past. The Athabasca Valles region includes a vast lava flow, thought to be the youngest on Mars, with even younger outflow channels that were carved by running water.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSand Sources Near Athabasca Valles. NASA/JPL, 2014-10-29. Public domain. ID: PIA18889.
