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Mars-Orbiting Spacecraft Captures ‘Snaking Scar’ Throughout the Base of Monumental Volcano

A high-resolution digital camera system aboard the Mars Express Orbiter has returned gorgeous photographs of “snaking” gashes throughout the foot of Arsia Mons, one of many pink planet’s large volcanoes.

The European Space Agency (ESA) clocked Mars’ deep, uneven scar at roughly 373 miles lengthy (600 km) — making it round one-and-a-third occasions the size of the Grand Canyon. People first documented the characteristic in 1930, and formally dubbed it Aganippe Fossa 46 years later.

“The construction, named after a spring nymph in Greek mythology, puzzles even at this time’s consultants,” stated the German Aerospace Center, which developed the stereo digital camera aboard the 21-year-old Mars Categorical spacecraft. The company added, “Some theories counsel that the ditch is tectonic in origin, whereas others declare that volcanic veins shaped throughout a late interval of exercise,” creating scar-like depressions throughout each rocky and gently sloping terrain.

For its half, the ESA stated Aganippe Fossa seemingly developed as “magma rising beneath the colossal mass of the [nearby] Tharsis volcanoes triggered Mars’s crust to stretch and crack.”

“A Broader View Of Aganippe Fossa” © NASA/MGS/MOLA Science Group

Along with the bottom of Arsia Mons — which stretches about 2 km increased than Earth’s tallest volcano — Aganippe Fossa’s gashes cross via gigantic, marble-like patterns that include mud and sand blown about by Martian winds, in response to the ESA.

The company captured the characteristic stereoscopically, which suggests you may view it (and its neighboring volcano) in 3D, if you happen to occur to have red-blue or red-green glasses helpful.

Mars’ Aganippe Fossa captured in 3D © ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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