Hephaestus_Fossae

Hephaestus Fossae

Hephaestus Fossae

Martian landscape feature

The Hephaestus Fossae are a system of troughs and channels in the Amenthes quadrangle of Mars, with a location centered at 21.1 N and 237.5 W. They are 604 km long and were named after a classical albedo feature name.[1] The fossae have been tentatively identified as outflow channels, but their origin and evolution remain ambiguous.[2] It has been proposed that water may have been released into the troughs as a catastrophic flood due to subsurface ice melting following a large bolide impact.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". Astrogeology Research Program. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. [2]
    Carr, M.H. (2006), The Surface of Mars. Cambridge Planetary Science Series, Cambridge University Press.
  3. [3]
    "Craters and channels in Hephaestus Fossae".

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