Echus Chasma [SEP] located on astronomical body
Echus Chasma
Echus Chasma is a chasma in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. It is in the Coprates quadrangle. Clay has been found within it, meaning that water once sat there for a time. It may have been one of the many lakes that have been advanced for the Martian past. Research from 2010 suggests that Mars also had lakes along parts of the equator which is where Echus Chasma lies. Although earlier research had showed that Mars had a warm and wet early
channels flow east or north into the plain.
- Ares Vallis ("Aram Chaos"; "Iani Chaos")
- Kasei Vallis ("Echus Chasma")
- Maja Valles ("Juventae Chasma")
- Mawrth Vallis ("no obvious source")
- Ravi Vallis ("Aromatum Chaos")
- Shalbatana Vallis ("chaos in Orson Welles crater"; "Ganges Chasma"?)
- Simud Valles ("Hydraotes Chaos"; "Aureum Chaos"?;