[rintense]

Is it me or does that photo look exceedingly fake? It looks like an artist's rendering.

[ThePythonicCow]

Is it me or does that photo look exceedingly fake? It looks like an artist's rendering.

The poster left off the caption, which casts a whole new light on this picture:

The picture shows a portion of a 1,700-km-long and 65-km-wide swathe of Valles Marineris. It is in two parts. The top looks down; the lower part of the picture shows the same region in perspective view, as if seen from a low-flying aircraft. This perspective view was generated on computer.

The horizontal dark swath isn't the canyon, it's the split between the two views.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Is it me or does that photo look exceedingly fake? It looks like an artist's rendering.

I was thinking it looked like a Roger Dean painting. If they start telling us about floating jungles, my suspicions will be confirmed.