Canyons Craters Polar Ice Caps Water Features Volcanoes Martian Terrain Dust Storms Sand Dunes Videos Return to Water Features index. The numerous channels and apron deposits indicate that many tens to hundreds of individual events involving the flow of water and debris have occurred here. The channels and aprons have very crisp, sharp relief and there are no small meteor impact craters on them, suggesting that these features are extremely young relative to the 4.5 billion year history of Mars. It is possible that these landforms are still being created by water seeping from the layered rock in the crater wall today.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper left.