Mars' Rivers Flowed Stronger and More Recently Than Previous Estimates (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Mars' Rivers Flowed Stronger and More Recently Than Previous Estimates (2 of 2)

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Marked photo of a preserved river channel on Mars, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with color overlaid to indicate elevation (blue is low, yellow is high.) The range of elevation in the scene is approximately 35 meters. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 27th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.S. Kite at University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, and colleagues was titled, "Persistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars history."

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[Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/UChicago]

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