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Credit & Copyright: NASA,Viking Project,USGS
Explanation:
The Mariner Valley, also known as the Valles Marineris canyon system,
appears in this mosaic of images from NASA's
Viking spacecraft
as a huge gouge across the red planet.
This "Grand Canyon" of Mars
is about 2500 miles long and up to 4 miles deep.
By comparison, the Earth's Grand Canyon is less than 500
miles long and 1 mile deep.
For more information about Mars see Calvin J. Hamilton's Mars Page.
The exploration of Mars is chronicled by the Center For Mars Exploration.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: canyon - Mars
Publications with words: canyon - Mars
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 3 Á Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
- APOD: 2024 November 10 Á Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
- APOD: 2024 September 9 Á Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos
- APOD: 2024 June 5 Á Shadow of a Martian Robot
- Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
- The Shadow of Ingenuity s Damaged Rotor Blade
- APOD: 2023 November 7 Á A Martian Dust Devil Spins By