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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For the first time ever, new maps of the subsurface of Mars show buried channels below the surface of the planet. These channels suggest evidence of flooding on a planet that has been considered by scientists to be cold and dry for the last 2.5 billion years. The young channels are located in Elysium Planitia, an expanse of plains along the equator. This region is also the youngest volcanic region on Mars. Understanding the scale and...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers have found evidence that ancient caverns on Mars may have captured enormous flood waters some 2 billion years ago. Planetary Science Institute researchers studied the terminal regions of the Hebrus Valles, which is an outflow channel that extends about 155 miles downstream from two zones of surface collapse. The Martian outflow channels are made up of some of the largest known channels in the solar system....