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Southern Alluvial Fan (Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
HiRISE image PSP_003269_1600 covers an Alluvial Fan along the wall of a large Unnamed Crater in the Mid Latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. 
The Fan was formed when water and sediments drained down the steep wall of the Crater creating a cone-shaped pile of debris at the base. 
As the Fan grew with time, the Channels carrying water and sediment across its Surface changed locations, thus producing a Layered Deposit capped by Channels radiating from the Fan apex along the Crater Wall.
Subsequent stripping of the Fan Surface by the wind has left the coarser Channel Deposits in relief and exposed the fine scale layering within the Fan in many locations. 

While is it is not known whether the source of the water responsible for creating the Fan was related runoff from precipitation or groundwater or perhaps both, Alluvial Fans of broadly similar form are observed in many locations on Earth and are usually formed by runoff from precipitation. 
Parole chiave: Mars from orbit - Alluvial Fan

Southern Alluvial Fan (Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)

HiRISE image PSP_003269_1600 covers an Alluvial Fan along the wall of a large Unnamed Crater in the Mid Latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere of Mars.
The Fan was formed when water and sediments drained down the steep wall of the Crater creating a cone-shaped pile of debris at the base.
As the Fan grew with time, the Channels carrying water and sediment across its Surface changed locations, thus producing a Layered Deposit capped by Channels radiating from the Fan apex along the Crater Wall.
Subsequent stripping of the Fan Surface by the wind has left the coarser Channel Deposits in relief and exposed the fine scale layering within the Fan in many locations.

While is it is not known whether the source of the water responsible for creating the Fan was related runoff from precipitation or groundwater or perhaps both, Alluvial Fans of broadly similar form are observed in many locations on Earth and are usually formed by runoff from precipitation.

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Nome del file:PSP_003269_1600_RED_abrowse.jpg
Nome album:MareKromium / Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Valutazione (2 voti):55555(Mostra dettagli)
Parole chiave:Mars / from / orbit / - / Alluvial / Fan
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona and Paolo C. Fienga/Lunexit Team per l'additional process. e la colorizzazione
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Data di inserimento:Ott 11, 2010
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