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Date Entered: August 1992
Date Last Revised: April 1993
Age of geologic units and sediment: Noachian, Hesperian. Sediment origin: fluvial , eolian, volcanic. Two fretted channels, Auqakuh and Huo Hsing Valles, flow through this region located near the highland - lowland boundary scarp. This area contains extensive deposits of horizontal, layered material which was later eroded.
Scientific Rationale
To be determined.
Objectives
To be determined.
Potential Problems
To be determined.
Trafficability
To be determined.
Estimated Traverse Distance
To be determined.
Papers:
MacKinnon, D.J., K.L. Tanaka, and P.J. Winchell, Morphologic contrasts between Nirgal and Auqakuh Valles, Mars: Evidence of different properties (abstract), in MEVTV Workshop on Nature and Composition of surface units on Mars, edited by J.R. Zimbelman, S.C. Solomon and V.L. Sharpton, 82-84, 1987.
Moore, J.M., Nature of the Mantling Deposit in the Heavily Cratered Terrain of NE Arabia, Mars, JGR, 95, 14,279-289, 1990.
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