The freshest outflow channel, Floods in Athabasca Valles Options

[SigurRosFan]

Release date: April 03, 2006

- http://themis.asu.edu/features/athabascafloods

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Based on the counts, however, the valley is between 2 million and 30 million years old. If true, that makes it the youngest outflow channel on Mars.

Estimates of the volume range from 10,000 to 10 million cubic meters per second. For comparison, the Mississippi River's flow averages 17,000 cubic meters per second.
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Athabasca Valles and Cerberus Fossae are one of my interesting places on Mars. I'm searching for images of this rootless cinder cones in the valley.

[lyford]

This image is also fascinating:

Streamlined mesa with similar orientation and terracing. Crater sits at upslope end; mesa formation is hypothesized to be by deposition in its lee during flood flow
It sure looks like the crater filled and then the walls breached and drained with the flow.... That's a lot of water!