Tags: Crater.

Aram Chaos centered at 2.6°N 21.5°W comprises a heavily eroded impact crater on the planet Mars. It lies at the eastern end of the large canyon Valles Marineris and close to Ares Vallis. Various geological processes have reduced it to a circular area of chaotic terrain. Aram Chaos takes its name from Aram one of the classical albedo features observed by Giovanni Schiaparelli who named it after the Biblical land of Aram.

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