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Cerberus Flood Features

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows streamlined landforms carved by catastrophic floods that occurred in the eastern Cerberus region on Mars, some time in the distant martian past.
PIA03043
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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16 October 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows streamlined landforms carved by catastrophic floods that occurred in the eastern Cerberus region, some time in the distant martian past.

Location near: 15.1°N, 193.5°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn