Feature Image: Channel and Graben

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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This image of Tempe Terra contains northward flowing channels and a graben running ENE to WSW. When the intersection of the large channel and the graben is examined it shows that the fracturing that created the graben postdates the channel.