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Mars - Ophir Chasma

Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mars - Ophir Chasma
Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

Uploader comment: During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km, or about 3,106 miles, long, whose connected chasma or valleys may have formed from a combination of erosional collapse and structural activity. This synthetic oblique view shows Ophir Chasma, the northern most one of the connected valleys of Valles Marineris.


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