Seasonal Water on Mars
A false color image of lineae in Hale crater.
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Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field.
Dark narrow streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Another false color image of lineae in Hale crater
A simulated 3D view of lineae in Hale crater
A simulated 3D view of lineae in Garni crater.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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Project support
- Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
- Mark Malanoski (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Writer
- Heather Hanson (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Saturday, October 10, 2015.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:29 AM EST.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Papers used in this visualization
Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars, doi:10.1038/ngeo2546