The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods

While most riverbeds on Earth are formed via slow erosion by running water, many of Mars’s deepest canyons appear to have been carved by sudden, catastrophic floods

The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods
Space 29 September 2021

By Leah Crane

Channels connected  Mars

Some of the channels connected the Martian aboveground whitethorn person formed rapidly during floods

NASA

Floods whitethorn person been acold much important connected past Mars than we thought. The Red Planet is criss-crossed by vale networks that once held flowing rivers and the deepest of them look to person formed rapidly from cataclysmic flooding.

Up until astir 3.5 cardinal years ago, galore of the craters that pock the Martian aboveground were afloat of water. Timothy Goudge astatine the University of Texas astatine Austin and his colleagues mapped retired however often those …

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