Valles Marineris

Valles Marineris is a canyon system on Mars. It is 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometres) long.

Valles Marineris Media

• Valles Marineris & outflow channels MOLA zoom 64.jpg

  Topographic map of Valles Marineris with its associated outflow channels and their surroundings, based on MOLA altimetry data

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  Valles Marineris in mosaic of THEMIS infrared images from 2001 Mars Odyssey

• Noctis Labyrinthus.jpg

  Morning water ice fog spills out of Noctis Labyrinthus (Viking 1 orbiter image)

• Mars; Ius Chasma.jpg

  Ius Chasma image mosaic from 2001 Mars Odyssey, showing side canyons created by sapping. On the northern (upper) rim, right of center, a canyon turns 90 degrees where it encounters a graben.

• Ophir Chasma THEMIS mosaic

• Seasonal flows on Coprates Chasma in Valles Marineris.

• Deposits from landslides moving in opposite directions meet on the canyon floor near the junction of Melas and Coprates chasmata.

• Rim of Ganges chasma, closeup showing stratigraphy and small landslides.