Dendritic Patterns -- Earth and Mars

The Okavango River in Botswana, Africa empties into no sea or ocean, instead it flows into a broad shallow graben. The dark patches on the delta are swamps, the parallel linear features are stabilized sand dunes. The Martian valley network on the right is in the southern hemisphere within the cratered terrain. The Mars image is 200 km across.

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