This observation should provide us a closer look at lava-topography interactions in this area. Athabasca Valles is a young outflow channel system on Mars that may have been carved by catastrophic water floods. Other HiRISE images reveal that Athabasca Valles is now entirely draped by a thin layer of solidified lava, the remnant of a once-swollen river of molten rock.

ID: ESP_076652_1885
date: 3 December 2022
altitude: 276 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076652_1885
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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