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Young Lava Flows

April 16, 2018
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows remarkably young lava flows in Elysium Planitia. There are almost no impact craters over this flow, indicating that it is probably only a few million years old.
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The map is projected here at a scale of 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) per pixel.
[The original image scale is 55.0 centimeters (21.7 inches) per pixel (with 2 x 2 binning); objects on the order of 165 centimeters (64.9 inches) across are resolved.] North is up.

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows remarkably young lava flows in Elysium Planitia. There are almost no impact craters over this flow, indicating that it is probably only a few million years old -- practically an infant in geologic time.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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