Overview and regional maps · 52–53
Meridiani
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These valleys formed long before life existed on Earth’s land. The two neighbouring planets may have been more alike then, and perhaps Venus was too. The valleys end abruptly at the edge of the Meridiani plateau. Groundwater flowed through its porous layers, where the tiny hematite spherules that now carpet its surface also formed.