Martian Hydrology

Term paper for GEO 348 Geomorphology, Geography Department, University at Buffalo

Martian Hydrology

Evidence for water action on the surface of Mars

Cover Image

Nanedi Vallis river bed

Figure 1 - Northern Polar Ocean

Global map of Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter data

Figure 2 - Fluid Erosion Features

Exposed cliff wall in rift valley

Figure 3 - Recent Erosion

Channels and aprons have very crisp, sharp relief

Figure 4 - Ponding

On the crater floor the fluid ponds

Figure 5 - Extinct River with Channeling

Nirgal Vallis sports gully erosion and aprons along its banks

Figure 6 - Sedimentation

Incredible terrains of layered sediment