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Also Known As	stream channel • stream bed • channel

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Martian surface near the equator. The right half of the picture is dominated by craters; the lighter areas on the left are channels that were probably caused by water runoff from the west (left). This false-colour composite picture is based on high-resolution black-and-white and low-resolution colour images taken by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 spacecraft.

cratered plains and cratered highlands in Lunae Planum

underfit stream

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Henri-Émile Bazin

French engineer