STS-104 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
August 24, 2001

MARS ANALOGS
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STS104-705-68
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South Africa: Surface streams flowing off the bedrock plateau (smooth surface at left center) have carved canyons and a dendritic network of channels in the layered rock (very rugged country downhill of a marked cliff edge). Similar features, seen in Mars Orbital Camera images of the Northern Highlands of Mars, are interpreted to have been created by flowing water at a time when the Martian climate is thought to have been wetter.

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