Mars “Grand Canyon”: NASA images show the largest canyon in our solar system

There is a sprawling canyon system in operation Mars That’s nearly 10 times the length of the Earth and three times its depth Grand CanyonWhich makes it the largest valley in the solar system.

The canyon system, known as’ l ‘Valles Marineris’, stretches more than 2,500 miles across the Martian equator (the distance between Los Angeles and New York City), which is roughly a quarter of the planet’s circumference. USA Today Reports. According to the site, scientists are using an ultra-high-resolution camera to study how the geological formation appeared.

The special camera is called HiRISE (short for High Resolution Imaging Scientific Experiment) and is placed on board the Mars Exploration Orbiter; Scientists at the University of Arizona have used it to take close-ups of the strangest features of the planet since 2006. Living Sciences Reports.

The university recently released a series of stunning photos of Valles Marineris that showcase some of the most impressive details of the formation, USA Today Reports. It was one of the pictures Recently uploaded to Twitter:

The University of Arizona has it A web page This is only for HiRISE camera. The site publishes one HiRISE image every day and has been doing this since December 1, 2018. You can view the entire gallery Here. The HiRISE official Twitter account He also posts photos regularly:

Unlike our Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris may not be carved by flowing water, Living Sciences Reports. According to the site, the planet’s climate is too hot and dry to accommodate a river large enough to create such a wonderful valley.

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according to European Space Agency (European Space Agency), the majority of the valley may have formed billions of years ago when a group of nearby giant volcanoes (known as the Tharsis region) penetrated the planet’s crust for the first time, Living Sciences Reports. According to their theory, the massive amount of volcanic event could have caused the split in the Martian crust that initially created the valley, and could expand millions of years of weathering and erosion.

to me USA TodayThen, future analysis of high-resolution images like this will provide scientists with more clues to solve the bewildering origin story of the largest valley in the solar system.

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