Medusae Fossae

Medusae Fossae is valleys (fossae) of 333 km located on the planet Mars in Amazonis Planitia, on the level of the equator (). Its name given in 1973, comes from the Gorgone Méduse.

The area is flown over by the probe Viking then by Mars Global Surveyor on October 30th, 1997, shortly after the beginning of the orbit n°31 (11: 05 AM PST).

Thomas Watters (of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ) and Jeffrey Plaut (of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) studied this area using the antenna radar MARSIS of the satellite Mars Express which flew over several times the area between March 2006 and April 2007. The result of this study is published in Science magazine .

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