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	Chryse Planitia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chryse Planitia is a smooth circular plain in the northern equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region.
		Chryse Planitia shows evidence of water erosion in the past, and is the bottom end for many outflow channels from the southern highlands as well as from Valles Marineris and the flanks of the Tharsis bulge.
		It has been theorized that the Chryse basin may have contained a large lake or an ocean during the Hesperian or early Amazonian periods since all of the large outflow channels entering it end at the same elevation, at which some surface features suggest an ancient shoreline may be present.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chryse_Planitia (322 words)

	Shupe \| chryse planitia
		This story is one all people should know, for in an age in which we have yet to set a human foot on Mars, the legacy of this manmade mechanical explorer should stand with those of Neil Armstrong and Sputnik.
		In 1877, Schiaparelli observed with the aid of a telescope a bright region on Mars and named it Chryse after a golden land rumored in ancient times to be located east of the Indian Ocean.
		Chryse Planitia was chosen as the landing site, not only because from the Viking I observations it appeared to be very smooth, but also because those same pictures showed large channels running into the desert plains which seemed to indicate that large amounts of water had been emptied into this region.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/05/shupe/chryse_planitia.html (569 words)

	PSR Discoveries: Outflow Channels in Chryse Planitia, Mars
		MOLA data show that Chryse Planitia is not a closed basin, as thought previously, but rather a low area with a gentle regional slope to the north-northeast.
		The absence of a topographic low within Chryse Planitia, and lack of a barrier between the channel mouths and the northern lowlands, suggests that channels emptied and spread out beyond Chryse into the North Polar basin.
		Some of the channels continue out of Chryse Planitia for hundreds of kilometers into the North Polar basin, but their patterns are subdued and very different once past their recognized termini.
	www.psrd.hawaii.edu /June01/MarsChryse.html (1607 words)

	Chryse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Chryse (Greek: Χρύση, Khrýsē) was a lover of Ares and mother of Phlegyas.
		Chryse (Greek: Χρύση, Khrýsē) is also an island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake.
		Chryse is also the name of a town mentioned in The Iliad, from which Agamemnon took Chryseis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chryse (157 words)

	ch4
		Teardrop-shaped "islands" are shown at the mouth of Ares Vallis near the southern boundary of Chryse Planitia.
		Flow was from the south and apparently diverged around obstacles such as craters and low hills to form a sharp prow upstream and an elongate tail downstream.
		The west side of Chryse Planitia has been extensively sculpted by flow from Maja Vallis, which is situated just to the left of this mosaic.
	www.solarviews.com /history/SP-441/ch4.htm (1348 words)

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		High-resolution (1:500,000-scale) geologic mapping of a 300 -km-wide and 1500-km-long strip, or geotraverse, across the transition from the Xanthe Terra cratered highlands to the Chryse Planitia lowlands encompasses an area on the margin of the Chryse Basin unaffected by outflow channels.
		Erosion of the moat-filling deposit along the outer margins of the Chryse basin accounts for the streamlined tables formed during outflow channeling throughout the margins of Chryse Planitia.
		The geology of the central basin interior, where the Viking 1 Lander is located, is consistent with the presence of fluvial sediments derived from both the adjacent highlands and remobilized from the marginal moat-filling unit, and deposited near the termini of the Maja and Kasei Valles outflow channels.
	www.agu.org /pubs/abs/je/96JE03421/96JE03421.html (407 words)

	Pathfinder's Port of Call
		The landing site was in a region called Chryse Planitia, which means Plain of Gold.
		Chryse Planitia is a wind-whipped flood plain, thought to have been formed when massive flows of water, enough to fill all five of Earth's Great Lakes, rushed over the northern lowlands a few billion years ago.
		The closest low-elevation, flat area lies on Chryse Planitia.
	www.amnh.org /rose/mars/pl3.html (404 words)

	NAI: News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Viking 1 lander set down on Chryse Planitia, a flood plain at 23 degrees north latitude.
		"It was a very different environment from the flood plains of Chryse." The weather at Utopia Planitia was different -- a result of its more northern latitude, there were curious pedestals that scientists thought might be small volcanoes, and the terrain was littered with the ejecta of the nearby impact crater.
		At its northern latitude in Utopia Planitia, Viking 2 frequently saw a thin layer of frost (water ice) dusting the terrain.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /news_stories/news_detail.cfm?article=old/viking.htm (1255 words)

	VL1 Site: Chryse Planitia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The density of impact craters in the 100 m to 2 km range is close to half the average for lunar maria.
		No traces can be seen of the large channels that scour the surface of Chryse Planitia 200 km to the southwest and trend toward the site.
		The plains appear volcanic, and the absence of fluvial features suggests either that the channels did not reach as far as the site or that fluvial features are covered by younger deposits.
	cmex.ihmc.us /CMEX/data/SiteCat/sitecat2/Vikings1.htm (348 words)

	Volcanism of Mars - Provinces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Acidalia Planitia is the site of numerous small cones and domes, many with craters.
		Chryse Planitia hosts numerous small shields, buttes, and knobs.
		Isidis Planitia is noted for its long chains of coalescent crater cones that may be analogous to the crater and cone chains that form along fissures on rift zones on Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
	erc.arc.nasa.gov /MarsVolc/provinces.htm (746 words)

	Viking 1
		Viking 1, the first spacecraft to sucessfully land and conduct science on the surface of another planet, landed at Chryse Planitia on July 20th, 1976.
		Chryse Planitia is a smooth and featureless flood plain, adjacent to major channel systems.
		Below are images of Chryse Planitia and the Viking 1 landing spot.
	mola.gsfc.nasa.gov /viking1.html (173 words)

	Zamnet Communication Systems Limited
		Chryse Planitia may once have been an ocean.
		Dr Coleman says his latest study shows that nowhere is the evidence for vast quantities of running water clearer than the outflow channels of Chryse Planitia.
		Consider the associated Kasei Valles, he suggests, it is a system of intertwined flood-carved channels more than 2,000 km long that begins in near the equator in Echus Chasma and ends in Chryse Planitia.
	www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=8&id=1054716973 (537 words)

	The Viking Missions: Looking for Life
		On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander separated from the Viking 1 orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia, the Plains of Gold (22.48 degrees N, 49.97 degrees W).
		The Viking 2 lander touched down at Utopia Planitia, the Utopian Plains (47.97 degrees N, 225.74 degrees W) on September 3, 1976.
		The landing sites were chosen primarily for their relatively flat terrain to provide a safe landing spot for the two landers.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /HAS/cirr/em/8/4.cfm (1021 words)

	Space Science - Mars Images
		Martian dust devils had been suspected for some time, both because their winds had been measured by the Pathfinder lander's weather station, and because previous Global Surveyor images had shown mysterious "tracks" on the planet's surface.
		The large white object at lower left and center, with the American flag on the side, is the radiothermal generator (RTG) cover.
		Chryse Planitia is a wide, low plain covered with large rocks and loose sand and dust.
	ali.apple.com /space/images_mars.shtml (1867 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA07304
		This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows an impact crater in Chryse Planitia, not too far from the Viking 1 lander site, that to seems to resemble a bug-eyed head.
		The two odd depressions at the north end of the crater (the "eyes") may have formed by wind or water erosion.
		This region has been modified by both processes, with water action occurring in the distant past via floods that poured across western Chryse Planitia from Maja Valles, and wind action common occurrence in more recent history.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA07304 (135 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Mars was a water world
		Neil Coleman has studied some of the most dramatic and significant scenery on Mars: the enormous outflow channels of Chryse Planitia.
		Neill Coleman's work, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, is, he believes, conclusive evidence that water, not carbon dioxide, is responsible for the features seen on the planet's surface.
		He suggests it is a system of intertwined flood-carved channels more than 2,000 kilometres long that begins in near the equator in Echus Chasma and ends in Chryse Planitia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/2959674.stm (566 words)

	summary english (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These represent the 'highlands' (Ascraeus Mons), the 'lowlands' (Hellas Planitia), and at the mouth of the large canyon structure Valles Marineris (Chryse Planitia).
		Although no water was found within the first 100 meters of the surface, indications of subsurface water were found after 100 meters and materials with significantly higher water content (.05% by mass) were found after 300 meters.
		In the Chryse Planitia region this water content was found somewhat closer to the surface (200 meters) while in the Hellas Planitia region, no significant water was found to the depth of 300 meters.
	marsville.enoreo.on.ca /secondary/mission/summary.htm (804 words)

	Adler Planetarium / CyberSpace / Planets / Mars / Chryse Planitia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chryse Planitia is a small plain close to the Tharsis bulge.
		The image to the left is of Tiu Vallis, located in the Chryse Planitia.
		It is believed that long ago in the Martian past liquid water cut these features on the surface of the planet, similar to how rivers and streams on Earth create canyons and valleys.
	www.adlerplanetarium.org /cyberspace/planets/mars/mars_map/chryseplanitia.html (205 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA03164
		During the Viking Mission, the Viking Lander Camera System acquired many high-resolution images of the scene at Chryse Planitia.
		Using individual camera events, which occurred on many days throughout the mission, computer mosaics have been created for the site as viewed by each of the two cameras on the spacecraft.
		Two sets of mosaics were produced of Chryse Planitia; one pair for camera 1 and 2 images acquired in the early morning and one pair for camera 1 and 2 images acquired in the mid-afternoon.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA03164 (178 words)

	The Surface of Mars as Seen by Viking
		This monster mosaic of Utopia Planitia was created from more than 20 of the highest resolution images taken by Viking Lander 2.
		The gently sloping troughs between the artificial trenches and the angular rock, which cut from the middle left to the lower right corner, are natural surface features.
		The Viking Lander 1 site in Chryse Planitia is a barren desert with rocks strewn between sand dunes.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/marssurf.htm (1238 words)

	Viking 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Viking 2 landed at Utopia Planitia on September 3, 1976.
		The topography of the Utopia Planitia is remarkably flat, with slopes in the near field of less than 1 degree and those on the horizon all less than 2 degrees.
		Below are images of Utopia Planitia and the Viking 2 landing spot.
	mola.gsfc.nasa.gov /viking2.html (194 words)

	Mars renders
		The Lunae Planitia, south of the Kasei Valley.
		The southern Chryse Planitia with the Aram Chaos crater, the Ares Valles in front.
		The Gale crater in the Aeolis Mensae, the Elysium Planitia behind, the Elysium Mons at the horizon (left).
	home-1.worldonline.nl /~veenen/terragen/mars/mars_2.html (564 words)

	ESA Portal - Life in Space - Beagle 2 landing site selected
		The site is also at a low enough elevation to allow the parachutes sufficient atmosphere to brake the lander’s descent, has few steep slopes down which the tiny probe may have to bounce as it lands, and doesn’t seem to be too dusty.
		Further studies, however, showed that the probe would be unable to function properly at these sites because their latitudes make them too cold in early spring.
		One channel south of Chryse would have been warm enough, but it is too narrow to ensure a safe landing.
	www.esa.int /export/esaCP/GGGJDUPCWGC_Life_0.html (601 words)

	International MarsWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Here are images from November 24th 2005 at 03:27 UT. There is a new dust event in Chryse Planitia.
		Here is a map that shows the area where the dust storm formed quite well, and the shape it took matches the topography quite well.
		Chryse (as a revival of the N. part of the classic Indus 'canal' attached to SE Mare Acidalium) tends to confirm their dusty nature.
	elvis.rowan.edu /marswatch/dust (3036 words)

	Envirocast® On-Line Feature of the Week
		It shows Nanedi Valles, a roughly 500 mile valley extending southwest-northeast and lying in the region of Xanthe Terra, southwest of Chryse Planitia.
		Nanedi Valles, a roughly 500 mile valley extending southwest-northeast and lying in the region of Xanthe Terra, southwest of Chryse Planitia.
		The valley's origins remain unclear, with scientists debating whether erosion caused by ground-water outflow, flow of liquid beneath an ice cover or collapse of the surface in association with liquid flow is responsible.
	www.stormcenter.com /media/envirocast/archive/060810 (322 words)

	The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery. Chapter 13: Vikings---and Beyond. University of Arizona Press.
		At the resolution of the orbiter images, the surface had appeared featureless apart from impact craters and wrinkle ridges---there was little, indeed, to distinguish it from one of the wide gray plains of the Moon.
		Unlike the rather varied rock forms of Chryse, Utopia's rocks proved to be larger on average and more evenly distributed across the surface, with no bedrock outcrops or large drifts, and this created a singularly monotonous appearance.
		Whereas the Chryse site consisted of gently rolling plains, Utopia proved to be remarkably flat, presumably because of its proximity to the 90-kilometer impact crater, Mie, whose rim lay 170 kilometers east of the landing site.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /onlinebks/mars/chap13.htm (5921 words)

	Viking Mars Landings
		Viking 1 landed in Chryse Planitia, towards the left of following graphic.
		The landing took place in the martian northern summer - note the icecap around the south pole.
		Viking 2 landed in Utopia Planitia, slightly to the right and upper part of the graphic.
	documents.wolfram.com /applications/astronomer/Notebooks/VikingMarsLandings.html (284 words)

	TPS: Exploring Mars: Images from the Viking Lander Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Viking 1 landed in Chryse Planitia, about twenty degrees north of the equator.
		On September 3, 1976, the Viking 2 lander separated from the orbiter and touched down in Utopia Planitia, on the opposite side of the planet and almost 1,500 kilometers closer to the north pole than Viking 1.
		The sky's reddish color is probably caused by the scattering of sunlight off of red dust particles in the air.
	www.planetary.org /mars/vl-images.html (335 words)

	Viking - Sample Image Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Viking II lander color image looking south of spacecraft with Utopia Planitia in distance.
		Color view of Chryse Planitia looking NW over the Viking I lander.
		Trenches dug by the Viking I lander in the "Sandy Flats" location on Mars.
	www.tufts.edu /as/wright_center/work_con_lec/astro_wkshp_res/astro_wkshp_cd_2001/images/viking_gallery/pages/viking_gallery.html (101 words)

	Nanedi Valles valley system on Mars
		Nanedi Valles, a roughly 800-kilometre valley extending southwest-northeast and lying in the region of Xanthe Terra, southwest of Chryse Planitia.
		The images have been rotated 90 degrees clockwise, so that north is to the right.
		They show the region of Nanedi Valles, a roughly 800-kilometre valley extending southwest-northeast and lying at approximately 6.0° North and 312° East in the region of Xanthe Terra, southwest of Chryse Planitia.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-04/esa-nvv042506.php (336 words)

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