A fresh look at the Channeled Scablands of North America shows that the ancient floods that scarred that landscape were smaller than is commonly assumed. This result could revise estimates of similar floods on Mars. See Letter p.229
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Perron, J., Venditti, J. Megafloods downsized. Nature 538, 174–175 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/538174a
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