Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images

Lice Science ^ | 04 January 2021 | Brandon Specktor

[BenLurkin]

About 87 million miles (140 million kilometers) above the Grand Canyon, an even larger, grander abyss cuts through the gut of the Red Planet. Known as Valles Marineris, this system of deep, vast canyons runs more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) along the Martian equator, spanning nearly a quarter of the planet's circumference. This gash in the bedrock of Mars is nearly 10 times as long as Earth's Grand Canyon and three times deeper, making it the single largest canyon in the solar system — and, according to ongoing research from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, one of the most mysterious.

Using an incredibly high-resolution camera called HiRISE (short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UA scientists have been taking close-up shots of the planet's strangest features since 2006. Despite some truly breathtaking images of Valles Marineris — like the one below, posted to the HiRISE website on Dec. 26, 2020 — scientists still aren't sure how the gargantuan canyon complex formed.

[BenLurkin]

If there's water on Mars, this is where NASA should have been looking.

[amorphous]

LICE Science, huh? Lol... Leave it to them to discover where all the lice on Mars are hiding! ;)

[thescourged1]

You just couldn’t help yourself, could you? LOL

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Just nit picking is all.

[Candor7]

Again , they are revealing the primordial ancient home of our forefathers of far Barsoom.

Brought to you by the Electric Universe.

[BlueStateRightist]

Website’s images are hard to interpret. Not stunning. That said, that is a cool canyon.

[blueunicorn6]

Earth has The Grand Canyon.

What do the Martians call this hole in the ground?

Nothing.

We get to call it whatever we want.

I call it Not The Grand Canyon.

[amorphous]

LOL! Nooo... :D

[Candor7]

The old home place:

https://www.livescience.com/14462-amateur-astronomer-spot-secret-mars-base.html

[a fool in paradise]

Is this one of those 3-D computer generated images? You have to unfocus your eyes and look THROUGH the picture, right?

[ETL]

Mars' Valles Marineris, the single largest canyon in the solar system

[ETL]

[thescourged1]

Ok, I asked for that one....lmao

[ETL]

Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images
Lice Science ^ | 04 January 2021 | Brandon Specktor

[ETL]

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I see what you did there.

“Nit definition is - the egg of a louse or other parasitic insect; also: the insect itself when young.”

[Organic Panic]

That looks nothing like Rosie O’Donnell’s mouth.

[mabarker1]

But We can go Rafting in OURS !!!

[The Duke]

( Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus, Don't mention Uranus ... )

[ConservaTeen]

I know how it was formed .. Two alien races we're battling ad or of them shot a laser at Mars and the laser caused the canyon...😀

I read it in a sci-fi book ..😀