In the west of the Mawrth Vallis outflow
In the west of the Mawrth Vallis outflow
At approximately 25 degrees north, Mawrth Vallis, located in western Arabia Terra, ends and flows into Chryse Planitia at the boundary between the Martian highlands and lowlands. Spacecraft such as ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered clay minerals there with their spectrometers, which can be seen in this image created using data acquired by DLR's HRSC instrument as light-coloured deposits that are up to 200 metres deep. North, with the Martian lowlands is on the right in this image, while the Martian highlands with their large, old impact craters are on the left. The region shown covers an area of 335 kilometres by 84 kilometres and, at 28,000 square kilometres, is a little smaller than the German state of Brandenburg.
