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Mars Express Photos of Echus Chasma

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• This image provided by the European Space Agency Monday July 14, 2008 shows an image taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESAs Mars Express of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 1,864 miles (3000 km) to the north. The data was acquired on Sept. 25, 2005.
• This image provided by the European Space Agency Monday July 14, 2008 shows an image taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESAs Mars Express of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma, which resembles Arizona's Grand Canyon, is an approximately 62.1 miles (100 km) long and 6.2 miles (10 km) wide. The data was acquired on 25 September 2005. A 4000-meter-high cliff marks the edge of the source area of Kasei Valles in its western part. Gigantic water falls may have once plunged over these cliffs on to the valley floor. The original shoreline is still partially visible. The remarkably smooth valley floor was later flooded by basaltic lava.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north. The image was made available on July 14, 2008.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north. The image was made available on July 14, 2008.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA?s Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north. The image was made available on July 14, 2008.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north. The image was made available on July 14, 2008.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north. The image was made available on July 14, 2008.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma in this image made available on July 14, 2008. Echus Chasma is an approximately 100 km long and 10 km wide incision in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of Valles Marineris, the 'Grand Canyon' of Mars. The anaglyph image was calculated from the nadir and one stereo channel. The black and white high resolution images were derived from the nadir channel.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA?s Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma in this image made available on July 14, 2008. Echus Chasma is an approximately 100 km long and 10 km wide incision in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of Valles Marineris, the 'Grand Canyon' of Mars.
• The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma in this image made available on July 14, 2008. Echus Chasma is an approximately 100 km long and 10 km wide incision in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of Valles Marineris, the 'Grand Canyon' of Mars. The ortho-image was rectified using elevation data derived from a high-resolution Digital Terrain Model, or DTM (obtained from HRSC data), such that distortions introduced during imaging are corrected. Such an image can be used to derive maps. Elevation data from the DTM has been color-coded and overlain on the ortho-image so that elevation data and the image itself are displayed in a single scene. The scale is in meters.
• A view of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on Mars, showing a network of light-colored, incised valleys, from images taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express and made available July 14, 2008. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3,000 km to the north.

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