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Snow-capped, rugged Atlas Mountains encircle a green valley with scattered trees, terraced fields, and a few small buildings in Morocco.

idealized profiles of two hillslopes

Central Valles Marineris

dendritic drainage pattern

underfit stream

cratered plains and cratered highlands in Lunae Planum

False-colour oblique view of central Valles Marineris. The eastern edge of Candor Chasma (left) and Ophir Chasma (centre) show evidence of erosional collapse. This picture combines data from high-resolution black-and-white and low-resolution colour images taken by the Viking spacecraft.

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