Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins

JPL/CALTECH — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:00:34 +0000

Excerpt: Thin, blade-like walls, some as tall as a 16-story building, dominate a previously undocumented network of intersecting ridges on Mars, found in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The simplest explanation for these impressive ridges is that lava flowed into pre-existing fractures in the ground and later resisted erosion better than material around them....

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Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins