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Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

57 points • by gmays • today at 1:40 AM • 3 comments • view on HN

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bajard • today at 4:51 AM

If you were standing on the "walls" of the canyon, it would look like terrain with a 10%–15% slope. You wouldn't even notice it's a canyon.

somat • today at 4:06 AM

The bit of mars that fascinates me is the Hellis Planitia[1] A huge hole roughly opposite the globe from the large volcano complex[2] coincidence.. I think not.

I am vaguely surprised it was not higher rated for a rover mission. 7k meters down should do something interesting to the atmosphere if nothing else.

1. https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/#v=0.1&x=72.07800218650755&y=-42....

2. https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/#v=0.1&x=-116.4913302335018&y=16....

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