Mamers Valles
| Mamers Valles Mars Crater | ||
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| position | 40 ° 0 ′ N , 17 ° 48 ′ E | |
Mamers Valles is a long mountainous landscape in the northern part of the planet Mars . Extending over 1000 km, it crosses the highland region of Arabia Terra (the Arab country) via the Cerulli crater to the Vastitas Borealis , the largest flat plain on the planet.
In the middle part of the Mamers Valles the width measures about 25 km, the height about 1200 m. Mamers is the Oscar word for Mars, after which the mountain landscape was named in 1976.
Linear courses at the foot of the mountainous landscape indicate ice flows covered by rocks. The most widespread theory of the formation of the mountainous landscape is that it was formed either by water or by lava flowing from south to north.
Mamers Valles is dated back to the early Hesperian period about 3.8 billion years ago.
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Mamers Valles recorded by HiRISE
