- Ares Vallis
MarsGeo-Valley
name=Ares Vallis
caption=Mars Pathfinder (at 19.13 N, 33.22 W) photographed the region where Ares Vallis borders Chryse
latitude=10.4
N_or_S=N
longitude=25.8
E_or_W=W
location=North ofMargaritifer Terra , south ofChryse Planitia , west ofMeridiani Planum
length=1,700.0 km
naming=Word for 'Mars' in Greek.Ares Vallis is a
valley onMars which appears to have been carved by fluids, perhapswater . The valley 'flows' northwest out of the hillyMargaritifer Terra , where theIani Chaos depression (180 km long and 200 km wide) is connected to the beginning of Ares Vallis by a 100-km wide transition zone centred around 342.5º East (17.5 West) and 3º North. [ [http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMIKO0DU8E_0.html Mars Express - Ancient floods on Mars: Iani Chaos and Ares Vallis] , ESA,2005-06-01 ] . It then continues through the ancientXanthe Terra highlands, and ends in a delta-like region ofChryse Planitia .Its name comes from the Greek name for Mars:
Ares , the god of war.Ares Vallis was the landing site of
NASA 's "Mars Pathfinder " spacecraft, which studied a region of the valley near the border with Chryse in1997 .Notes
ee also
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Mars
*Mars Pathfinder External links
* [http://www.google.com/mars/#lat=10.3&lon=-25.8 Google Mars scrollable map] - centered on Ares Vallis
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