A small finger of the Athabasca Valles flood lava has flowed through here and either carved a shallow channel or used a previously existing channel. It might be the latter, since there are places where the lava doesn’t seem to have made it over the channel bank and because a thin flow like this can’t have been very erosive.
ID:
ESP_065415_1880date: 10 July 2020
altitude: 276 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065415_1880
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