New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.
New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system just dropped, and it's absolutely breathtaking.by its Mars Express mission yesterday of the epic geological structure, known as Valles Marineris and which is 20 times wider than our own Grand Canyon, as well as ten times longer and seven times deeper.
Also unlike the Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris was most likely created by drifting tectonic plates versus running water., newly released but captured back in April, shows a deep sandy-orange gulf outlined by jagged cliffs and pocked by craters from previous impacts — a timely reminder of the extraordinary, lonely grandeur of our solar system.
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