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data-file-width="570" data-file-height="519" /></a><figcaption>Branched valley network in <a href="/wiki/Thaumasia_quadrangle" title="Thaumasia quadrangle">Thaumasia quadrangle</a>, as seen by Viking Orbiter. Field of view is roughly 200 km across.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Valley networks</b> are branching networks of valleys on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> that superficially resemble terrestrial <a href="/wiki/River" title="River">river</a> <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are found mainly <a href="/wiki/Erosion" title="Erosion">incised</a> into the terrain of the martian <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Mars#Hemispheric_dichotomy" title="Geology of Mars">southern highlands</a>, and are typically - though not always - of <a href="/wiki/Noachian" title="Noachian">Noachian</a> age (approximately four billion years old). The individual valleys are typically less than 5 kilometers wide, though they may extend for up to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers across the martian surface. </p><p>The form, distribution, and implied evolution of the valley networks are of great importance for what they may tell us about the history of liquid <a href="/wiki/Water_on_Mars" title="Water on Mars">water on the martian surface</a>, and hence Mars' <a href="/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a> history. Some authors have argued that the properties of the networks demand that a <a href="/wiki/Hydrological_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydrological cycle">hydrological cycle</a> must have been active on ancient Mars,<sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though this remains contentious.<sup id="cite_ref-MalinCarr1999_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalinCarr1999-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Objections chiefly arise from repeated results from models of <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Mars" title="Climate of Mars">martian paleoclimate</a> suggesting high enough temperatures and pressures to sustain liquid water on the surface have not ever been possible on Mars.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberle1998_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberle1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The advent of very high resolution images of the surface from the <a href="/wiki/HiRISE" title="HiRISE">HiRISE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thermal_Emission_Imaging_System" title="Thermal Emission Imaging System">THEMIS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter">Context</a> (CTX) satellite cameras as well as the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Orbital_Laser_Altimeter" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter">Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter</a> (MOLA) digital terrain models have drastically improved our understanding of the networks in the last decade. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Form">Form</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Form"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG/100px-Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG/150px-Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Channels_near_Warrego_in_Thaumasia.JPG 2x" data-file-width="176" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Part of a valley network near <a href="/wiki/Warrego_Valles" title="Warrego Valles">Warrego Valles</a>, seen by THEMIS. Length of image is roughly 50 km.</figcaption></figure> <p>The valleys of the networks are typically narrow (<0.5–4 km) and 50–200 m deep, with neither value changing consistently along their lengths. Their cross-sectional form tends to evolve from V-shaped in the headwaters to U-shaped in the lower reaches. The individual valleys form interconnected branching networks, typically less than 200 km long and draining into local topographic lows.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The form of the tributary valleys is commonly described as "stubby" or a similar term, implying short lengths away from the trunk streams and amphitheater-like terminations at their heads.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many authors have described the <a href="/wiki/Drainage_density" title="Drainage density">drainage density</a> of the networks as typically much lower than would be seen on Earth,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though the extent to which this may be an artifact of image resolution, landscape degradation or observer bias has also been raised in the literature.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, more recent imagery has also emphasized that the term "valley network" incorporates a large variety of different valley forms across a number of different scales in different martian geological settings.<sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Any branched valley system on a scale smaller than an <a href="/wiki/Outflow_channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Outflow channel">outflow channel</a> can be termed a valley network, probably incorporating a large variety of <a href="/wiki/Geomorphology" title="Geomorphology">geomorphological</a> formation processes. Some valley networks run for over 2000 km across the martian landscape. Some may change width downstream. Some have drainage densities which do match some terrestrial values.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Narrower, less deep valley networks are present, but probably are more rare than their larger equivalents.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In most valley networks, later <a href="/wiki/Aeolian_processes" title="Aeolian processes">aeolian processes</a> have deposited wind-blown sediments in the bottoms of the valleys, obscuring the nature of the channel which must have cut them. On Earth, a valley is a depression with a flat floor, across which migrates a channel, which carries the water discharge. Due to the later deposits on Mars, however, in almost all cases it is unclear whether the valley floors contain individual channel structures or whether they are fully inundated in flow events. <a href="/wiki/Nanedi_Valles" title="Nanedi Valles">Nanedi Valles</a> is a rare example where a channel has been identified,<sup id="cite_ref-MalinCarr1999_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MalinCarr1999-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though new higher resolution imagery again continues to reveal more such structures with time.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This accounts for the preference in the literature for the term "valley network" rather than "channel network", though some work tends to confuse the two in interpretation of these structures.<sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Distribution_and_age">Distribution and age</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Distribution and age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Candor_Channels.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Candor_Channels.jpg/300px-Candor_Channels.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Candor_Channels.jpg/450px-Candor_Channels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Candor_Channels.jpg/600px-Candor_Channels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="610" /></a><figcaption>Finer scale valley networks near <a href="/wiki/Candor_Chasma" title="Candor Chasma">Candor Chasma</a>, seen by HiRISE (click to zoom). Field of view is roughly 3.5 km across. Surface the valleys are cut into appears to be eroding back.</figcaption></figure> <p>Valley networks are very strongly concentrated in the cratered southern uplands of Mars. The <a href="/wiki/Hesperian" title="Hesperian">Hesperian</a>-age <a href="/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> plains of the northern hemisphere are in general almost entirely undissected. However, there are significant numbers of exceptions to this generalization - in particular, many of the Hesperian and younger <a href="/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars" title="Volcanism on Mars">volcanoes</a> carry networks, as well as several other areas.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These valleys also appear qualitatively "fresher" and less degraded than those in the highlands (e.g., Nanedi Vallis). </p><p>However, at finer scales than this the distribution of the valleys where present is highly patchy and discontinuous. Within the highlands, it is not unusual to find heavily dissected slopes immediately adjacent to almost entirely unmodified surfaces, both at valley and catchment scales. The valleys are also regionally clustered, with little dissection in Northwest <a href="/wiki/Arabia_Terra" title="Arabia Terra">Arabia</a> and southwest and southeast of <a href="/wiki/Hellas_Planitia" title="Hellas Planitia">Hellas</a>, but much in <a href="/wiki/Terra_Cimmeria" title="Terra Cimmeria">Terra Cimmeria</a> and just south of the equator from 20°E to 180°E. They are also much more prominent on steeper slopes,<sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for example on crater rims, but again may only be present on one side of such a rim.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unfortunately, the generally small size of individual catchments and the relative narrowness of their constituent valleys means that dating the valley networks by conventional <a href="/wiki/Crater_counting" title="Crater counting">crater counting</a> techniques is extremely difficult (though not impossible<sup id="cite_ref-DohmScott1993_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DohmScott1993-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). The concentration of the valleys in the <a href="/wiki/Noachian" title="Noachian">Noachian</a>-age southern highlands and their sparsity on the northern Hesperian plains, circumstantially combined with independent estimates of a multi-order of magnitude decrease in global martian erosion rates at the end of the Noachian,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> probably indicates that most of the networks were cut during this early interval.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the channels on Hesperian surfaces unambiguously demonstrate that valley-forming processes did continue at least in some locations at least some of the time after the Noachian. Some crater counting evidence even suggests some highland networks may have formed in the <a href="/wiki/Amazonian_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazonian period">Amazonian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DohmScott1993_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DohmScott1993-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation_and_implications_for_Martian_climate_history">Formation and implications for Martian climate history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Formation and implications for Martian climate history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eberswalde._Delta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Eberswalde._Delta.jpg/200px-Eberswalde._Delta.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Eberswalde._Delta.jpg/300px-Eberswalde._Delta.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Eberswalde._Delta.jpg/400px-Eberswalde._Delta.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4405" data-file-height="4976" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Eberswalde_(crater)" title="Eberswalde (crater)">Eberswalde</a> delta, seen by <a href="/wiki/Mars_Global_Surveyor" title="Mars Global Surveyor">MGS</a>. Note the meanders with cutoffs, now seen in <a href="/wiki/Inverted_relief" title="Inverted relief">inverted relief</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Mechanisms and implied environments for the formation of the valleys remain contentious. Processes as diverse as glaciation, mass wasting, faulting, and erosion by CO<sub style="font-size: 80%;vertical-align: -0.35em">2</sub>, wind and lava have all been invoked at some point in the formation of some networks, and may play important roles locally in some regions on Mars. Most authors however agree that liquid water must have played a role in the formation of the bulk of the valleys, largely on the basis of both the known widespread distribution of ice on Mars and also the physical properties of liquid water (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Viscosity" title="Viscosity">viscosity</a>) that almost uniquely allow it to flow thousands of kilometers downhill as streams.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Channel features on what are interpreted as eroded deltas at the foot of some networks (e.g., in <a href="/wiki/Eberswalde_(crater)" title="Eberswalde (crater)">Eberswalde crater</a>) are also uniquely associated with formation by flowing water - for example, meandering, sinuous channels with <a href="/wiki/Avulsion_(river)#Meander_cutoffs" title="Avulsion (river)">meander cutoffs</a>, which have internally consistent hydraulic geometries corresponding very closely to what would be expected in fluvial channels on Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Independent lines of evidence also suggest the existence of liquid water at or very near the surface at various times in martian history, for example, <a href="/wiki/Evaporites" class="mw-redirect" title="Evaporites">evaporites</a> at <a href="/wiki/Meridiani_Planum" title="Meridiani Planum">Meridiani Planum</a> and pervasive aqueous alteration of rocks in the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Hills_(Mars)" title="Columbia Hills (Mars)">Columbia Hills</a>, both investigated by the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rovers" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars Exploration Rovers">Mars Exploration Rovers</a>. </p><p>Beyond this, there are several different scenarios that have been advanced to account for the form and distribution in both space and time of the valleys. Each has its own set of implications regarding the paleoclimate of Mars at the time of formation of the networks. Some of these are summarized below. It is also worth emphasizing that, as on Earth, different formation mechanisms are likely to operate at different times and places on the surface of Mars. </p><p>In August 2020 scientists reported that valley networks in the <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Mars#Martian_dichotomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of Mars">southern highlands</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> may have been formed mostly under glaciers, not free-flowing rivers of water, indicating that early Mars was colder than thought and that extensive glaciation likely occurred in its past.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1._Business_as_usual,_groundwater_under_ice:_Cold,_dry_Mars"><span id="1._Business_as_usual.2C_groundwater_under_ice:_Cold.2C_dry_Mars"></span>1. Business as usual, groundwater under ice: <i>Cold, dry Mars</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1. Business as usual, groundwater under ice: Cold, dry Mars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This scenario seeks to describe the formation of the valley networks without appeal to conditions or processes different from those already known to exist on Mars today. Modeling indicates that seeps of groundwater could occur on the surface even under modern conditions, but will freeze very quickly. However, under this suggestion ice cover could insulate the water flowing beneath it well enough to allow long-distance transport (and associated erosion), much like a <a href="/wiki/Lava_tube" title="Lava tube">lava tube</a> insulates the molten lava inside it.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The valleys typically have many features that on Earth are commonly (though not exclusively<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) associated with <a href="/wiki/Groundwater_sapping" title="Groundwater sapping">groundwater sapping</a> - for instance, amphitheater-like headwalls, constant valley width downstream, flat or U-shaped floors and steep walls.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, without some recharge mechanism for the putative aquifers producing this seepage, i.e., a hydrologic cycle of some kind, it is extremely unlikely that enough water could seep to cut all of the valleys formed in the Noachian. In spite of this, this basic model may remain useful in understanding the more limited valleys formed later in the Hesperian and Amazonian.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2._Groundwater_sources,_hydrological_cycle:_Cold,_wet_Mars"><span id="2._Groundwater_sources.2C_hydrological_cycle:_Cold.2C_wet_Mars"></span>2. Groundwater sources, hydrological cycle: <i>Cold, wet Mars</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2. Groundwater sources, hydrological cycle: Cold, wet Mars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>These models expand upon the cold, dry Mars model by envisioning mechanisms whereby subsurface aquifers providing groundwater might be recharged in early Mars history. They thus require a sustained water cycle of some sort on the long term in the Noachian, but do not explicitly require that this water be liquid or fall as <a href="/wiki/Precipitation_(meteorology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Precipitation (meteorology)">precipitation</a>. This means Mars need not be warm (i.e., above freezing) in its early history, in accordance with current climate models.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberle1998_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberle1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Global_groundwater_circulation">Global groundwater circulation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Global groundwater circulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been proposed<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that the <a href="/wiki/Aquifer" title="Aquifer">aquifers</a> could be recharged on geological time scales by a sequence of sublimation of the frozen seeps, atmospheric circulation of the vapor to the southern polar ice cap, redeposition of this onto the cap, basal melting under the ice mass, and groundwater circulation on a global scale. This mechanism is appealing as it requires little conjecture about radically different past climate, and fits well with independent theories on the origins of the martian <a href="/wiki/Outflow_channels" title="Outflow channels">outflow channels</a> at <a href="/wiki/Chaos_terrain" title="Chaos terrain">chaos terrains</a> as major aquifer breaches. However, the <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatic_head" title="Hydrostatic head">hydrostatic head</a> supplied by this mechanism could not feed the numerous channels at elevations greater than the base of the southern polar cap.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Local_groundwater_circulation">Local groundwater circulation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Local groundwater circulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A related model suggests that locally generated heat could produce local scale groundwater seepage and recharge, either by intrusive volcanism<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or impact heating.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this version struggles to explain the longer, larger valley networks - if water flows hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from the heat source, ground will again be frozen and recharge will not be possible once again.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="3._Full_active_hydrological_cycle:_Warm,_wet_Mars"><span id="3._Full_active_hydrological_cycle:_Warm.2C_wet_Mars"></span>3. Full active hydrological cycle: <i>Warm, wet Mars</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valley_network_(Mars)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 3. Full active hydrological cycle: Warm, wet Mars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of the Noachian valley networks have features strongly indicative of an origin from distributed precipitation: branched networks, valleys starting at narrow crests, V-shaped cross profiles, diffusional behavior of hillslopes. Conversely, using only geomorphic evidence, it is very challenging to build a strong argument against origin by precipitation.<sup id="cite_ref-CraddockHoward2002_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraddockHoward2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Precipitation also provides a straightforward recharge mechanism for subsurface aquifers, which doubtlessly do exist and are important in some cases (as on Earth). This precipitation may have occurred as <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a> or <a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a> (with subsequent melt on the ground), but either demands a significantly more humid, and thus warmer and thicker, atmosphere than presently exists. A warmer, wetter Noachian is also supported by independent observations of rock weathering rates, Noachian-age <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_crater_lake" title="Volcanic crater lake">crater lakes</a>, and Noachian geology at the lander sites. </p><p>The chief difficulty with this model is that Martian climate simulations have difficulty reliably simulating a warm, wet Noachian, largely due to the distance between the Sun and Mars compared to the Earth, and the inferred weaker Sun in the early solar system.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberle1998_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberle1998-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, a CO<sub>2</sub>-H<sub>2</sub>O greenhouse atmosphere to warm the climate should have left extensive deposits of <a href="/wiki/Carbonate" title="Carbonate">carbonate</a> rocks, which have not been found. Problems also exist with sustaining such an atmosphere for long enough to allow the valleys to form, as the unweathered basalts so prevalent on Mars should form extremely effective <a href="/wiki/Carbon_sink" title="Carbon sink">carbon sinks</a>, especially if the surface is wet,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continuing impacts from space in Mars' early history should quickly strip any atmosphere away.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Solutions to this apparent contradiction may include exotic mechanisms that do not require a sustained CO<sub>2</sub>-H<sub>2</sub>O greenhouse, such as episodic heating due to volcanism or impacts. Other possibilities (other than misinterpretation of the geology and geomorphology) are defects in the physics of, or boundary conditions for, the climate models - a stronger Sun than current theory predicts, defective assumptions about trace (but powerful) greenhouse gases, or failings in the parameterization of CO<sub>2</sub> clouds.<sup id="cite_ref-Carr2006_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carr2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, it is possible that additional trace gases, together with CO<sub>2</sub>, could have solved this paradox. Ramirez et al.(2014)<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had shown that a CO<sub>2</sub>-H<sub>2</sub> greenhouse would be strong enough to produce the above-freezing temperatures necessary for valley formation. This CO<sub>2</sub>-H<sub>2</sub> greenhouse has been subsequently found to be even more effective than originally demonstrated in Ramirez et al. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impact_events_on_Mars" title="Impact events on Mars">Impacts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mars-crossing_minor_planets" title="List of Mars-crossing minor planets">Mars-crossers</a> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2007_WD5" title="2007 WD5">2007 WD<span style="position: relative; top: 0.3em;"><span style="font-size:80%;">5</span></span></a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_trojan" title="Mars trojan">Trojans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/5261_Eureka" title="5261 Eureka">5261 Eureka</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(101429)_1998_VF31" title="(101429) 1998 VF31">1998 VF<sub>31</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(121514)_1999_UJ7" title="(121514) 1999 UJ7">1999 UJ<sub>7</sub></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/(311999)_2007_NS2" title="(311999) 2007 NS2">2007 NS<sub>2</sub></a></span></li></ul></li></ul> 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href="/wiki/Diacria_quadrangle" title="Diacria quadrangle">Diacria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elysium_quadrangle" title="Elysium quadrangle">Elysium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eridania_quadrangle" title="Eridania quadrangle">Eridania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellas_quadrangle" title="Hellas quadrangle">Hellas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapygia_quadrangle" title="Iapygia quadrangle">Iapygia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismenius_Lacus_quadrangle" title="Ismenius Lacus quadrangle">Ismenius Lacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunae_Palus_quadrangle" title="Lunae Palus quadrangle">Lunae Palus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Acidalium_quadrangle" title="Mare Acidalium quadrangle">Mare Acidalium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Australe_quadrangle" title="Mare Australe quadrangle">Mare Australe (South Pole)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Boreum_quadrangle" title="Mare Boreum quadrangle">Mare Boreum (North Pole)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Tyrrhenum_quadrangle" title="Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle">Mare Tyrrhenum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaritifer_Sinus_quadrangle" title="Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle">Margaritifer Sinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memnonia_quadrangle" title="Memnonia quadrangle">Memnonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noachis_quadrangle" title="Noachis quadrangle">Noachis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxia_Palus_quadrangle" title="Oxia Palus quadrangle">Oxia Palus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaethontis_quadrangle" title="Phaethontis quadrangle">Phaethontis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenicis_Lacus_quadrangle" title="Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle">Phoenicis Lacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinus_Sabaeus_quadrangle" title="Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle">Sinus Sabaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrtis_Major_quadrangle" title="Syrtis Major quadrangle">Syrtis Major</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharsis_quadrangle" title="Tharsis quadrangle">Tharsis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaumasia_quadrangle" title="Thaumasia quadrangle">Thaumasia</a></li></ul> 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Patera</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fretted_terrain" title="Fretted terrain">Fretted terrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geysers_on_Mars" title="Geysers on Mars">Geysers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glaciers_on_Mars" title="Glaciers on Mars">Glaciers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groundwater_on_Mars" title="Groundwater on Mars">Groundwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullies_on_Mars" title="Gullies on Mars">Gullies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverted_relief" title="Inverted relief">Inverted relief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakes_on_Mars" title="Lakes on Mars">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_lava_tube" title="Martian lava tube">Lava tubes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lineated_valley_fill" title="Lineated valley fill">Lineated valley fill</a> (LVF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lobate_debris_apron" title="Lobate debris apron">Lobate debris apron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Polar_Basin_(Mars)" title="North Polar Basin (Mars)">North Polar Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_ocean_hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars ocean hypothesis">Ocean hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ore_resources_on_Mars" title="Ore resources on Mars">Ore resources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outflow_channels" title="Outflow channels">Outflow channels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_polar_ice_caps" title="Martian polar ice caps">Polar caps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_mold_crater" title="Ring mold crater">Ring mold craters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rootless_cone" title="Rootless cone">Rootless cones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scalloped_topography" title="Scalloped topography">Scalloped topography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seasonal_flows_on_warm_Martian_slopes" title="Seasonal flows on warm Martian slopes">Seasonal flows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_soil" class="mw-redirect" title="Martian soil">Soil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_spherules" title="Martian spherules">Spherules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_surface" title="Martian surface">Surface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_cheese_features" title="Swiss cheese features">Swiss cheese features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrain_softening" title="Terrain softening">Terrain softening</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tholus" title="Tholus">Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_plains_unit" title="Upper plains unit">Upper plains unit</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Valley networks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_on_Mars" title="Water on Mars">Water</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_discoveries_of_water_on_Mars" title="Chronology of discoveries of water on Mars">discovery chronology</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yardangs_on_Mars" title="Yardangs on Mars">Yardangs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geological_history_of_Mars" title="Geological history of Mars">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amazonian_(Mars)" title="Amazonian (Mars)">Amazonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperian" title="Hesperian">Hesperian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noachian" title="Noachian">Noachian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars" title="Volcanism on Mars">Volcanology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Mars_observation" title="History of Mars observation">Observation history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martian_canals" title="Martian canals">Canals</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Martian_canals" title="List of Martian canals">list</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_albedo_features_on_Mars" title="Classical albedo features on Mars">Classical albedo features</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_rocks_on_Mars" title="List of rocks on Mars">Rocks<br />observed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)" title="Curiosity (rover)"><i>Curiosity</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_Inlet_(rock)" title="Bathurst Inlet (rock)">Bathurst Inlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N165" title="N165">Coronation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goulburn_(Mars)" title="Goulburn (Mars)">Goulburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hottah_(Mars)" title="Hottah (Mars)">Hottah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jake_Matijevic_(rock)" title="Jake Matijevic (rock)">Jake Matijevic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Link_(Mars)" title="Link (Mars)">Link</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocknest_(Mars)" title="Rocknest (Mars)">Rocknest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocknest_3" title="Rocknest 3">Rocknest 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tintina_(rock)" title="Tintina (rock)">Tintina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surface_features_of_Mars_visited_by_Spirit_and_Opportunity" title="List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity"><i>Opportunity</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bounce_Rock" title="Bounce Rock">Bounce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Capitan_(Mars)" title="El Capitan (Mars)">El Capitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Last_Chance_(Mars)" title="Last Chance (Mars)">Last Chance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sojourner_(rover)" title="Sojourner (rover)"><i>Sojourner</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barnacle_Bill_(Martian_rock)" title="Barnacle Bill (Martian rock)">Barnacle Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogi_Rock" title="Yogi Rock">Yogi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surface_features_of_Mars_visited_by_Spirit_and_Opportunity" title="List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity"><i>Spirit</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adirondack_(Mars)" title="Adirondack (Mars)">Adirondack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Home_Plate_(Mars)" title="Home Plate (Mars)">Home Plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_(rover)#Mimi_rock_.28Sol_40.29" title="Spirit (rover)">Mimi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pot_of_Gold_(Mars)" title="Pot of Gold (Mars)">Pot of Gold</a></li></ul></li> <li>Viking <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunae_Palus_quadrangle#Results_From_Viking_I_Mission" title="Lunae Palus quadrangle">Big Joe</a></li></ul></li> <li>Other <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)#.22Face_on_Mars.22" title="Cydonia (Mars)">Face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_monolith" title="Mars monolith">Monolith</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rocks_on_Mars" title="List of rocks on Mars">Meteorites found on Mars</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Block_Island_meteorite" title="Block Island meteorite">Block Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heat_Shield_Rock" title="Heat Shield Rock">Heat Shield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mackinac_Island_meteorite" title="Mackinac Island meteorite">Mackinac Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heat_Shield_Rock" title="Heat Shield Rock">Meridiani Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oile%C3%A1n_Ruaidh_(Mars_rock)" title="Oileán Ruaidh (Mars rock)">Oileán Ruaidh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelter_Island_meteorite" title="Shelter Island meteorite">Shelter Island</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martian_meteorite" title="Martian meteorite">Martian meteorites found on Earth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Breccia" title="Breccia">Balsaltic Breccia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_meteorite#Chassignites" title="Martian meteorite">Chassignites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakhlite" title="Nakhlite">Nakhlites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_meteorite#Shergottites" title="Martian meteorite">Shergottites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_meteorite#Ungrouped_meteorites" title="Martian meteorite">Other</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Martian_meteorites" title="List of Martian meteorites">List</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Topography136" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Topography</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_on_Mars" title="List of mountains on Mars">Mountains</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars" title="Volcanism on Mars">volcanoes</a><br /><div style="font-weight:normal;">(<a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_on_Mars_by_height" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mountains on Mars by height">list by height</a>)</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acidalia_Colles" title="Acidalia Colles">Acidalia Colles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alba_Mons" title="Alba Mons">Alba Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anseris_Mons" title="Anseris Mons">Anseris Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollinaris_Mons" title="Apollinaris Mons">Apollinaris Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariadnes_Colles" title="Ariadnes Colles">Ariadnes Colles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astapus_Colles" title="Astapus Colles">Astapus Colles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ausonia_Montes" title="Ausonia Montes">Ausonia Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avernus_Colles" title="Avernus Colles">Avernus Colles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biblis_Tholus" title="Biblis Tholus">Biblis Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centauri_Montes" title="Centauri Montes">Centauri Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charitum_Montes" title="Charitum Montes">Charitum Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echus_Montes" title="Echus Montes">Echus Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elysium_(volcanic_province)" title="Elysium (volcanic province)">Elysium</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elysium_Mons" title="Elysium Mons">Elysium Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albor_Tholus" title="Albor Tholus">Albor Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecates_Tholus" title="Hecates Tholus">Hecates Tholus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus_Montes" title="Erebus Montes">Erebus Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxius_Mons" title="Galaxius Mons">Galaxius Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadriacus_Mons" title="Hadriacus Mons">Hadriacus Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellas_Montes" title="Hellas Montes">Hellas Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jovis_Tholus" title="Jovis Tholus">Jovis Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libya_Montes" title="Libya Montes">Libya Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Sharp" title="Mount Sharp">Mount Sharp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereidum_Montes" title="Nereidum Montes">Nereidum Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympus_Mons" title="Olympus Mons">Olympus Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegra_Montes" title="Phlegra Montes">Phlegra Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrtis_Major_Planum" title="Syrtis Major Planum">Syrtis Major Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus_Colles" title="Tartarus Colles">Tartarus Colles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus_Montes" title="Tartarus Montes">Tartarus Montes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharsis_Montes" title="Tharsis Montes">Tharsis Montes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascraeus_Mons" title="Ascraeus Mons">Ascraeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavonis_Mons" title="Pavonis Mons">Pavonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsia_Mons" title="Arsia Mons">Arsia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharsis_Tholus" title="Tharsis Tholus">Tharsis Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyrrhenus_Mons" title="Tyrrhenus Mons">Tyrrhenus Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_Tholus" title="Ulysses Tholus">Ulysses Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranius_group_of_volcanoes" title="Uranius group of volcanoes">Uranius group</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uranius_Mons" title="Uranius Mons">Uranius Mons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceraunius_Tholus" title="Ceraunius Tholus">Ceraunius Tholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranius_Tholus" title="Uranius Tholus">Uranius Tholus</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_plains_on_Mars" title="List of plains on Mars">Plains,<br />plateaus</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acidalia_Planitia" title="Acidalia Planitia">Acidalia Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeolis_Palus" title="Aeolis Palus">Aeolis Palus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazonis_Planitia" title="Amazonis Planitia">Amazonis Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcadia_Planitia" title="Arcadia Planitia">Arcadia Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentea_Planum" title="Argentea Planum">Argentea Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyre_Planitia" title="Argyre Planitia">Argyre Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chryse_Planitia" title="Chryse Planitia">Chryse Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daedalia_Planum" title="Daedalia Planum">Daedalia Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elysium_Planitia" title="Elysium Planitia">Elysium Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eridania_Planitia" title="Eridania Planitia">Eridania Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellas_Planitia" title="Hellas Planitia">Hellas Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperia_Planum" title="Hesperia Planum">Hesperia Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icaria_Planum" title="Icaria Planum">Icaria Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isidis_Planitia" title="Isidis Planitia">Isidis Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunae_Palus_quadrangle" title="Lunae Palus quadrangle">Lunae Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridiani_Planum" title="Meridiani Planum">Meridiani Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxia_Planum" title="Oxia Planum">Oxia Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planum_Australe" title="Planum Australe">Planum Australe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planum_Boreum" title="Planum Boreum">Planum Boreum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syria_Planum" title="Syria Planum">Syria Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrtis_Major_Planum" title="Syrtis Major Planum">Syrtis Major Planum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopia_Planitia" title="Utopia Planitia">Utopia Planitia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eden_Patera" title="Eden Patera">Eden Patera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orcus_Patera" title="Orcus Patera">Orcus Patera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peneus_Patera" title="Peneus Patera">Peneus Patera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pityusa_Patera" title="Pityusa Patera">Pityusa Patera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siloe_Patera" title="Siloe Patera">Siloe Patera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Chasma#Mars" title="Chasma">Canyons</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Vallis_(planetary_geology)" title="Vallis (planetary geology)">valleys</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aram_Chaos" title="Aram Chaos">Aram Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsia_Chasmata" title="Arsia Chasmata">Arsia Chasmata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aromatum_Chaos" title="Aromatum Chaos">Aromatum Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_Chaos" title="Atlantis Chaos">Atlantis Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aureum_Chaos" title="Aureum Chaos">Aureum Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candor_Chasma" title="Candor Chasma">Candor Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chasma_Boreale" title="Chasma Boreale">Chasma Boreale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coprates_Chasma" title="Coprates Chasma">Coprates Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echus_Chasma" title="Echus Chasma">Echus Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos_Chaos" title="Eos Chaos">Eos Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos_Chasma" title="Eos Chasma">Eos Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxias_Chaos" title="Galaxias Chaos">Galaxias Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganges_Chasma" title="Ganges Chasma">Ganges Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorgonum_Chaos" title="Gorgonum Chaos">Gorgonum Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebes_Chasma" title="Hebes Chasma">Hebes Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydaspis_Chaos" title="Hydaspis Chaos">Hydaspis Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydraotes_Chaos" title="Hydraotes Chaos">Hydraotes Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iani_Chaos" title="Iani Chaos">Iani Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ister_Chaos" title="Ister Chaos">Ister Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ius_Chasma" title="Ius Chasma">Ius Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juventae_Chasma" title="Juventae Chasma">Juventae Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melas_Chasma" title="Melas Chasma">Melas Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ophir_Chasma" title="Ophir Chasma">Ophir Chasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithonium_Chasma" title="Tithonium Chasma">Tithonium Chasma</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_valles_on_Mars" title="List of valles on Mars">List of valles</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apsus_Vallis" title="Apsus Vallis">Apsus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares_Vallis" title="Ares Vallis">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnus_Vallis" title="Arnus Vallis">Arnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asopus_Vallis" title="Asopus Vallis">Asopus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athabasca_Valles" title="Athabasca Valles">Athabasca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auqakuh_Vallis" title="Auqakuh Vallis">Auqakuh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahram_Vallis" title="Bahram Vallis">Bahram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buvinda_Vallis" title="Buvinda Vallis">Buvinda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dao_Vallis" title="Dao Vallis">Dao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enipeus_Vallis" title="Enipeus Vallis">Enipeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frento_Vallis" title="Frento Vallis">Frento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granicus_Valles" title="Granicus Valles">Granicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Valley_(Mars)" title="Green Valley (Mars)">Green Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmakhis_Vallis" title="Harmakhis Vallis">Harmakhis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrus_Valles" title="Hebrus Valles">Hebrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Her_Desher_Vallis" title="Her Desher Vallis">Her Desher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrad_Vallis" title="Hrad Vallis">Hrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huo_Hsing_Vallis" title="Huo Hsing Vallis">Huo Hsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypanis_Valles" title="Hypanis Valles">Hypanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iberus_Vallis" title="Iberus Vallis">Iberus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indus_Vallis" title="Indus Vallis">Indus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ituxi_Vallis" title="Ituxi Vallis">Ituxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kasei_Valles" title="Kasei Valles">Kasei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labou_Vallis" title="Labou Vallis">Labou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ladon_Valles" title="Ladon Valles">Ladon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethe_Vallis" title="Lethe Vallis">Lethe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Licus_Vallis" title="Licus Vallis">Licus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louros_Valles" title="Louros Valles">Louros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%CA%BCadim_Vallis" title="Maʼadim Vallis">Maʼadim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mad_Vallis" title="Mad Vallis">Mad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maja_Valles" title="Maja Valles">Maja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamers_Valles" title="Mamers Valles">Mamers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Valles" title="Mangala Valles">Mangala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valles_Marineris" title="Valles Marineris">Marineris</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Labes_on_Mars" title="List of Labes on Mars">Labes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marte_Vallis" title="Marte Vallis">Marte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maumee_Valles" title="Maumee Valles">Maumee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawrth_Vallis" title="Mawrth Vallis">Mawrth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minio_Vallis" title="Minio Vallis">Minio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naktong_Vallis" title="Naktong Vallis">Naktong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanedi_Valles" title="Nanedi Valles">Nanedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niger_Vallis" title="Niger Vallis">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirgal_Vallis" title="Nirgal Vallis">Nirgal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padus_Vallis" title="Padus Vallis">Padus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_Valles" title="Paraná Valles">Paraná</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patapsco_Vallis" title="Patapsco Vallis">Patapsco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_Vallis" title="Peace Vallis">Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahway_Valles" title="Rahway Valles">Rahway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Vallis" title="Ravi Vallis">Ravi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reull_Vallis" title="Reull Vallis">Reull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabis_Vallis" title="Sabis Vallis">Sabis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Vallis" title="Sabrina Vallis">Sabrina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samara_Valles" title="Samara Valles">Samara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scamander_Vallis" title="Scamander Vallis">Scamander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalbatana_Vallis" title="Shalbatana Vallis">Shalbatana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simud_Valles" title="Simud Valles">Simud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stura_Vallis" title="Stura Vallis">Stura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tader_Valles" title="Tader Valles">Tader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinia_Valles" title="Tinia Valles">Tinia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinjar_Valles" title="Tinjar Valles">Tinjar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiu_Valles" title="Tiu Valles">Tiu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyras_Vallis" title="Tyras Vallis">Tyras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzboi_Vallis" title="Uzboi Vallis">Uzboi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uzboi-Landon-Morava" title="Uzboi-Landon-Morava">ULM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vedra_Valles" title="Vedra Valles">Vedra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verde_Vallis" title="Verde Vallis">Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrego_Valles" title="Warrego Valles">Warrego</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fossa_(planetary_nomenclature)" title="Fossa (planetary nomenclature)">Fossae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mensa_(geology)" title="Mensa (geology)">mensae</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Rupes" title="Rupes">rupes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Labyrinthi_(planetary_geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labyrinthi (planetary geology)">labyrinthi</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amenthes_Fossae" title="Amenthes Fossae">Amenthes Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceraunius_Fossae" title="Ceraunius Fossae">Ceraunius Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus_Fossae" title="Cerberus Fossae">Cerberus Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coloe_Fossae" title="Coloe Fossae">Coloe Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyane_Fossae" title="Cyane Fossae">Cyane Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elysium_Fossae" title="Elysium Fossae">Elysium Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus_Fossae" title="Hephaestus Fossae">Hephaestus Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icaria_Fossae" title="Icaria Fossae">Icaria Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labeatis_Fossae" title="Labeatis Fossae">Labeatis Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Fossa" title="Mangala Fossa">Mangala Fossa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mareotis_Fossae" title="Mareotis Fossae">Mareotis Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medusae_Fossae_Formation" title="Medusae Fossae Formation">Medusae Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memnonia_quadrangle#Fossa_on_Mars" title="Memnonia quadrangle">Memnonia Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nili_Fossae" title="Nili Fossae">Nili Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympica_Fossae" title="Olympica Fossae">Olympica Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oti_Fossae" title="Oti Fossae">Oti Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirenum_Fossae" title="Sirenum Fossae">Sirenum Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantalus_Fossae" title="Tantalus Fossae">Tantalus Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tempe_Fossae" title="Tempe Fossae">Tempe Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithonium_Chasma" title="Tithonium Chasma">Tithonium Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tractus_Fossae" title="Tractus Fossae">Tractus Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_Fossae" title="Ulysses Fossae">Ulysses Fossae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeolis_Mensae" title="Aeolis Mensae">Aeolis Mensae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ausonia_Mensa" title="Ausonia Mensa">Ausonia Mensa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capri_Mensa" title="Capri Mensa">Capri Mensa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)" title="Cydonia (Mars)">Cydonia Mensae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deuteronilus_Mensae" title="Deuteronilus Mensae">Deuteronilus Mensae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganges_Mensa" title="Ganges Mensa">Ganges Mensa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nilosyrtis_Mensae" title="Nilosyrtis Mensae">Nilosyrtis Mensae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protonilus_Mensae" title="Protonilus Mensae">Protonilus Mensae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacra_Mensa" title="Sacra Mensa">Sacra Mensa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claritas_Rupes" title="Claritas Rupes">Claritas Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nilokeras_Scopulus" title="Nilokeras Scopulus">Nilokeras Scopulus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympus_Rupes" title="Olympus Rupes">Olympus Rupes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupes_Tenuis" title="Rupes Tenuis">Rupes Tenuis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angustus_Labyrinthus" title="Angustus Labyrinthus">Angustus Labyrinthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noctis_Labyrinthus" title="Noctis Labyrinthus">Noctis Labyrinthus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Crater_chain" title="Crater chain">Catenae</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars" title="List of craters on Mars">craters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artynia_Catena" class="mw-redirect" title="Artynia Catena">Artynia Catena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithonium_Chasma" title="Tithonium Chasma">Tithoniae Catenae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tractus_Catena" title="Tractus Catena">Tractus Catena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adams_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adams (Martian crater)">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agassiz_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agassiz (crater)">Agassiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airy_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Airy (Martian crater)">Airy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airy-0" title="Airy-0">Airy-0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aniak_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aniak (crater)">Aniak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoniadi_(Martian_crater)" title="Antoniadi (Martian crater)">Antoniadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arandas_(crater)" title="Arandas (crater)">Arandas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argo_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Argo (crater)">Argo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsky_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arkhangelsky (crater)">Arkhangelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrhenius_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arrhenius (Martian crater)">Arrhenius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asimov_(crater)" title="Asimov (crater)">Asimov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacolor_(crater)" title="Bacolor (crater)">Bacolor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakhuysen_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bakhuysen (crater)">Bakhuysen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baldet_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baldet (Martian crater)">Baldet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltisk_(crater)" title="Baltisk (crater)">Baltisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bamberg_(crater)" title="Bamberg (crater)">Bamberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barabashov_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barabashov (crater)">Barabashov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnard_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barnard (Martian crater)">Barnard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beagle_(crater)" title="Beagle (crater)">Beagle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Becquerel_(Martian_crater)" title="Becquerel (Martian crater)">Becquerel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beer_(Martian_crater)" title="Beer (Martian crater)">Beer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belz_(crater)" title="Belz (crater)">Belz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_(crater)" title="Bernard (crater)">Bernard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bianchini_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bianchini (Martian crater)">Bianchini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeddicker_(crater)" title="Boeddicker (crater)">Boeddicker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bok_(Martian_crater)" title="Bok (Martian crater)">Bok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bond_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bond (crater)">Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonestell_(crater)" title="Bonestell (crater)">Bonestell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonneville_(crater)" title="Bonneville (crater)">Bonneville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brashear_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brashear (Martian crater)">Brashear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briault_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Briault (crater)">Briault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burroughs_(crater)" title="Burroughs (crater)">Burroughs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burton_(crater)" title="Burton (crater)">Burton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Campbell (Martian crater)">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canso_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canso (Martian crater)">Canso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassini_(Martian_crater)" title="Cassini (Martian crater)">Cassini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caxias_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caxias (crater)">Caxias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerulli_(crater)" title="Cerulli (crater)">Cerulli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chafe_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chafe (crater)">Chafe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapais_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapais (crater)">Chapais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chincoteague_(crater)" title="Chincoteague (crater)">Chincoteague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chryse_Alien" title="Chryse Alien">Chryse Alien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clark (Martian crater)">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coblentz_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coblentz (Martian crater)">Coblentz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbus_(crater)" title="Columbus (crater)">Columbus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copernicus_(Martian_crater)" title="Copernicus (Martian crater)">Copernicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corby_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Corby (crater)">Corby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crewe_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crewe (crater)">Crewe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crivitz_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crivitz (crater)">Crivitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crommelin_(Martian_crater)" title="Crommelin (Martian crater)">Crommelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cruls_(crater)" title="Cruls (crater)">Cruls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curie_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Curie (Martian crater)">Curie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Da_Vinci_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Da Vinci (Martian crater)">Da Vinci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danielson_(crater)" title="Danielson (crater)">Danielson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darwin_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darwin (Martian crater)">Darwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davies_(crater)" title="Davies (crater)">Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawes_(Martian_crater)" title="Dawes (Martian crater)">Dawes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dejnev_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dejnev (Martian crater)">Dejnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denning_(Martian_crater)" title="Denning (Martian crater)">Denning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilly_(crater)" title="Dilly (crater)">Dilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinorwic_(crater)" title="Dinorwic (crater)">Dinorwic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglass_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglass (Martian crater)">Douglass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dromore_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dromore (crater)">Dromore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Martheray_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Du Martheray (crater)">Du Martheray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagle_(Acidalia_Planitia_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle (Acidalia Planitia crater)">Eagle (Acidalia Planitia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagle_(Meridiani_Planum_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eagle (Meridiani Planum crater)">Eagle (Meridiani Planum)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberswalde_(crater)" title="Eberswalde (crater)">Eberswalde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_(crater)" title="Eddie (crater)">Eddie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ejriksson_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ejriksson (Martian crater)">Ejriksson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Dean_(crater)" title="Emma Dean (crater)">Emma Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endeavour_(crater)" title="Endeavour (crater)">Endeavour</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matijevic_Hill" title="Matijevic Hill">Matijevic Hill</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endurance_(crater)" title="Endurance (crater)">Endurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus_(crater)" title="Erebus (crater)">Erebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Escalante_(Martian_crater)" title="Escalante (Martian crater)">Escalante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudoxus_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eudoxus (Martian crater)">Eudoxus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenagh_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fenagh (crater)">Fenagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fesenkov_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fesenkov (Martian crater)">Fesenkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firsoff_(Martian_crater)" title="Firsoff (Martian crater)">Firsoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flammarion_(Martian_crater)" title="Flammarion (Martian crater)">Flammarion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flaugergues_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flaugergues (crater)">Flaugergues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Focas_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Focas (Martian crater)">Focas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fontana_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fontana (Martian crater)">Fontana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fournier_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fournier (crater)">Fournier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fram_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fram (crater)">Fram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom (crater)">Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galdakao_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Galdakao (crater)">Galdakao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gale_(crater)" title="Gale (crater)">Gale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galle_(Martian_crater)" title="Galle (Martian crater)">Galle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garni_(crater)" title="Garni (crater)">Garni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gasa_(crater)" title="Gasa (crater)">Gasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert (Martian crater)">Gilbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gill_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gill (Martian crater)">Gill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gledhill_(crater)" title="Gledhill (crater)">Gledhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_(crater)" title="Gold (crater)">Gold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graff_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Graff (Martian crater)">Graff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_(Martian_crater)" title="Green (Martian crater)">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grindavik_(crater)" title="Grindavik (crater)">Grindavik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gusev_(Martian_crater)" title="Gusev (Martian crater)">Gusev</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_1_Hills" title="Apollo 1 Hills">Apollo 1 Hills</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chaffee_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaffee Hill">Chaffee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grissom_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Grissom Hill">Grissom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Hill,_Mars" class="mw-redirect" title="White Hill, Mars">White</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Hills_(Mars)" title="Columbia Hills (Mars)">Columbia Hills</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Husband_Hill" title="Husband Hill">Husband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCool_Hill" title="McCool Hill">McCool</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_(Mars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sleepy Hollow (Mars)">Sleepy Hollow</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadley_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hadley (crater)">Hadley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haldane_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Haldane (Martian crater)">Haldane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale_(Martian_crater)" title="Hale (Martian crater)">Hale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halley_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Halley (Martian crater)">Halley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hargraves_(crater)" title="Hargraves (crater)">Hargraves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartwig_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hartwig (Martian crater)">Hartwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaviside_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heaviside (Martian crater)">Heaviside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heimdal_(crater)" title="Heimdal (crater)">Heimdal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinlein_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinlein (crater)">Heinlein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmholtz_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Helmholtz (Martian crater)">Helmholtz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_(Martian_crater)" title="Henry (Martian crater)">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Martian_crater)" title="Herschel (Martian crater)">Herschel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hipparchus_(Martian_crater)" title="Hipparchus (Martian crater)">Hipparchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holden_(Martian_crater)" title="Holden (Martian crater)">Holden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holmes_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Holmes (crater)">Holmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hooke_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hooke (Martian crater)">Hooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huggins_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Huggins (Martian crater)">Huggins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hussey_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hussey (crater)">Hussey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutton_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hutton (Martian crater)">Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huxley_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Huxley (Martian crater)">Huxley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huygens_(crater)" title="Huygens (crater)">Huygens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iazu_(crater)" title="Iazu (crater)">Iazu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibragimov_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibragimov (crater)">Ibragimov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvik_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Inuvik (crater)">Inuvik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janssen_(Martian_crater)" title="Janssen (Martian crater)">Janssen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarry-Desloges_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarry-Desloges (crater)">Jarry-Desloges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeans_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeans (Martian crater)">Jeans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jezero_(crater)" title="Jezero (crater)">Jezero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jez%C5%BEa_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jezža (crater)">Jezža</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joly_(crater)" title="Joly (crater)">Joly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jones_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jones (Martian crater)">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaiser_(Martian_crater)" title="Kaiser (Martian crater)">Kaiser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keeler_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Keeler (Martian crater)">Keeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kepler_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kepler (Martian crater)">Kepler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinkora_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinkora (crater)">Kinkora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kipini_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kipini (crater)">Kipini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knobel_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Knobel (crater)">Knobel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koga_(crater)" title="Koga (crater)">Koga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korolev_(Martian_crater)" title="Korolev (Martian crater)">Korolev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kufra_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kufra (crater)">Kufra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuiper (Martian crater)">Kuiper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunowsky_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kunowsky (Martian crater)">Kunowsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambert_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lambert (Martian crater)">Lambert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamont_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lamont (Martian crater)">Lamont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampland_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lampland (Martian crater)">Lampland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lassell_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lassell (Martian crater)">Lassell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lau_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lau (crater)">Lau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Verrier_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Verrier (Martian crater)">Le Verrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Fan_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Fan (crater)">Li Fan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liais_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liais (crater)">Liais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lipik_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lipik (crater)">Lipik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Hsin_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liu Hsin (crater)">Liu Hsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanesco" class="mw-redirect" title="Llanesco">Llanesco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockyer_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lockyer (Martian crater)">Lockyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lod_(crater)" title="Lod (crater)">Lod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lohse_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lohse (Martian crater)">Lohse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lomonosov_(Martian_crater)" title="Lomonosov (Martian crater)">Lomonosov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louth_(crater)" title="Louth (crater)">Louth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell_(Martian_crater)" title="Lowell (Martian crater)">Lowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyell_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyell (Martian crater)">Lyell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyot_(Martian_crater)" title="Lyot (Martian crater)">Lyot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A4dler_(Martian_crater)" title="Mädler (Martian crater)">Mädler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magelhaens_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magelhaens (Martian crater)">Magelhaens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maggini_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maggini (crater)">Maggini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_(Martian_crater)" title="Main (Martian crater)">Main</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandora_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandora (crater)">Mandora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maraldi_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maraldi (Martian crater)">Maraldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariner (crater)">Mariner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marth_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marth (Martian crater)">Marth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martz_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Martz (crater)">Martz</a></li> 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title="Newton (Martian crater)">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nhill_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nhill (crater)">Nhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholson_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholson (Martian crater)">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niesten_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Niesten (crater)">Niesten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nipigon_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nipigon (crater)">Nipigon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onon_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Onon (crater)">Onon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orson Welles (crater)">Orson Welles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oudemans_(crater)" title="Oudemans (crater)">Oudemans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palana_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palana (crater)">Palana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pangboche_(crater)" title="Pangboche (crater)">Pangboche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasteur_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pasteur (Martian crater)">Pasteur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penticton_(crater)" title="Penticton (crater)">Penticton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perepelkin_(Martian_crater)" title="Perepelkin (Martian crater)">Perepelkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peridier_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peridier (crater)">Peridier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persbo_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Persbo (crater)">Persbo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pettit_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pettit (Martian crater)">Pettit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phillips (Martian crater)">Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickering_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickering (Martian crater)">Pickering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Playfair_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Playfair (Martian crater)">Playfair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pollack_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pollack (Martian crater)">Pollack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poona_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Poona (crater)">Poona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porter_(Martian_crater)" title="Porter (Martian crater)">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porth_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Porth (crater)">Porth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priestley_(Martian_crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Priestley (Martian crater)">Priestley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proctor_(Martian_crater)" title="Proctor (Martian crater)">Proctor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaeus_(Martian_crater)" title="Ptolemaeus (Martian crater)">Ptolemaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pu%C5%84sk_(crater)" title="Puńsk (crater)">Puńsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quenisset_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Quenisset (crater)">Quenisset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabe_(crater)" title="Rabe (crater)">Rabe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radau_(crater)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radau (crater)">Radau</a></li> <li><a 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