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    Post by Dragon Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:28 pm

    See Mars' geology up close, thanks to decades of stunning images from the Mars Express satellite, in a new visualization of Noctis Labyrinthus, the 'Labyrinth of Night'.

    A thrilling new video lets viewers fly through Mars' enormous "Labyrinth of Night," a system of extremely steep valleys about the length of Italy.

    The criss-crossing valleys in Noctis Labyrinthus, which is Latin for "Labyrinth of Night," are up to 19 miles (30 kilometers) wide — a bit longer than Manhattan — and 5 miles (6 km) deep.

    In the video, released by the European Space Agency (ESA), you can also spot craters, the wreckage from huge landslides, and dunes from blowing sand.


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    (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum). Image mosaic assembled by Bill Dunford.)

    This mosaic shows part of the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘Labyrinth of the Night’, on Mars.

    The video also shows curious geologic features called grabens, which are a sign of plate tectonics.

    These "stretch marks" are parts of the Martian crust that have been stressed and cracked due to volcanic activity, ESA officials said in a statement.


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    This video visualises a flight over the eastern part of Noctis Labyrinthus as seen by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC).

    It presents a perspective view down and across this fascinating landscape, showing distinctive ‘graben’ – parts of the crust that have subsided in relation to their surroundings.

    The intense volcanism in the nearby Tharsis region is to blame for the formation of these features; this volcanism caused large areas of martian crust to arch upwards and become stretched and tectonically stressed, leading to it thinning out, faulting and subsiding.


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