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High resolution images returned by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft allow closer examination of this unusual canyon. As shown here, slopes seem to descend steeply to the north and south in broad, debris-filled gullies with intervening rocky spurs, reminiscent of terrestrial canyons. Scientists question whether sedimentary processes, such as the ones which formed the Earth's Grand Canyon also formed these canyons. formed these canyons. In any case,
these images indicate that there may have been a complex and extremely active early
history for geologic processes on Mars.
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Return to Martian surface & interior
High resolution images returned by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft allow closer examination of this unusual canyon. As shown here, slopes seem to descend steeply to the north and south in broad, debris-filled gullies with intervening rocky spurs, reminiscent of terrestrial canyons. Scientists question whether sedimentary processes, such as the ones which formed the Earth's Grand Canyon also formed these canyons. In any case,
these images indicate that there may have been a complex and extremely active early
history for geologic processes on Mars.
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Return to Martian surface & interior
Better images returned by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft allow a closer look of this unusual canyon. As shown here, slopes seem to descend steeply to the north and south in broad, debris-filled gullies with intervening rocky spurs, just like canyons on Earth. These images indicate that there may have been a complicated and active early
history for geologic processes on Mars.
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Return to Martian surface & interior
