Granicus Valles

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Dec. 16, 2002

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The force of moving water from a flood carved these teardrop-shaped islands within Granicus Valles, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The orientation of the islands can be used as an indicator of the direction the water flowed.

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