Channel Near Olympus
Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ June 1, 2005
1 June 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a small portion of a broad, shallow channel system located on the plains northeast of Olympus Mons. Several similar valley/channel systems occur near Olympus Mons, and all of them are mysterious in terms of the nature of the fluids involved-- Was it water? Lava? Mud?
Location near: 20.8°N, 125.0°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Summer