New Mars Pics: More Water-Carved Valleys

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Global Surveyor at October 6, 2000 12:00 PM

As NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor heads into its fourth year in orbit around the Red Planet, mission scientists released a recent wide-angle image snapped by the spacecraft of three apparent water-carved valleys. Scientists believe torrents of water carved the valleys at some distant point in the Martian past, scouring the planet’s surface with a sudden outburst.