Overview and regional maps · 84–85
Elysium–Aeolis
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Hot water rising from below flowed far from the widening Cerberus fossae, followed by fluid lava moving east. The lava continued along the beds of earlier floods, between islands. As it cooled and contracted, the basaltic lava cracked into a hexagonal pattern.