This image has low-sun lighting that accentuates the many transverse ridges on this slope, extending from Euripus Mons (mountains).

These flow-like structures were previously called “lobate debris aprons,” but the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on MRO has shown that they are actually debris-covered flows of ice, or glaciers. There is no evidence for present-day flow of these glaciers, so they appear to be remnants of past climates.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (audio: Tre Gibbs)   (15 July 2016)

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Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona