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Mars: New hypothesis on the origin of the megafloods

Detail of a flood channel in Ares Valles

A study published in Scientific Reports puts forward a new explanation for the Martian megafloods: enormous discharges of subterranean water that dug out the biggest flood channels in the solar system over 3 billion years ago. For many years it was thought that these megafloods were caused by the release ...

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