A new paper just published indicates that NASA's Mars Pathfinder rover landed between what was once a vast northern ocean and an inland sea to the south. The area around Pathfinder's landing site was once subjected to catastrophic flooding from that sea, with some floods reaching heights of nearly a kilometer and moving at over 500 kilometers per hour!
A very belated updateNASA'S MARS PATHFINDER MAY HAVE LANDED AT THE EDGE OF AN ANCIENT INLAND MARTIAN SEAQuoteA new paper just published indicates that NASA's Mars Pathfinder rover landed between what was once a vast northern ocean and an inland sea to the south. The area around Pathfinder's landing site was once subjected to catastrophic flooding from that sea, with some floods reaching heights of nearly a kilometer and moving at over 500 kilometers per hour!
It would be cool to try 3d reconstruction using modern technologies, like it is being done for Perseverance landing site, but zip files for imagery are not available yet, they must be downloaded one by one...