Athabasca Valles, Mars: A Lava-Draped Channel System
@article{Jaeger2007AthabascaVM,
title={Athabasca Valles, Mars: A Lava-Draped Channel System},
author={Windy L. Jaeger and Laszlo P. Keszthelyi and Alfred S. McEwen and Colin M. Dundas and Paul C. Russell},
journal={Science},
year={2007},
volume={317},
pages={1709 - 1711}
}Athabasca Valles is a young outflow channel system on Mars that may have been carved by catastrophic water floods. However, images acquired by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft 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. The lava erupted from a fissure, inundated the channels, and drained downstream in geologically recent times…
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Response to Comment on "Athabasca Valles, Mars: A Lava-Draped Channel System"
- GeologyScience
- 2008
Data from the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera now confirm that, although certain features exhibit a superficial similarity to ice-related landforms, solidified lava coats the entire channel system of Athabasca Valles, Mars.
Coils and Polygonal Crust in the Athabasca Valles Region, Mars, as Evidence for a Volcanic History
- GeologyScience
- 2012
High-resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the Athabasca Valles on Mars is volcanic in origin, and 269 spiral coils ranging from 5 to 30 meters wide on the polygonally patterned interplate terrain that are morphologically consistent with terrestrial lava coils that form in zones of flow shear.
Comment on "Athabasca Valles, Mars: A Lava-Draped Channel System"
- GeologyScience
- 2008
All the features they described are secondary and postdate the surface by many millions of years, as documented by structural relationships with small, young impact craters.
RECONCILING CHANNEL FORMATION PROCESSES WITH THE NATURE OF ELEVATED HESPERIAN OUTFLOW SYSTEMS AT VALLES MARINERIS
- Geology
- 2008
[1] Many Hesperian outflow channels head at elevations compatible with aquifer recharge beneath the Martian south polar cap, and such channels are widely interpreted as the products of this recharge.…
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