Friday, April 01, 2011

MARS' GRAND CANYON

i09's

"This is the Valles Marineris, believed to be the biggest canyon in the entire solar system. At nearly 2,500 miles long, it would stretch clear across the continental United States."

"Much like Mars's highest peak, Olympus Mons, the sheer scale of Valles Marineris is almost incomprehensible. Depending on how you measure it, its total length falls somewhere between 3000 and 4000 kilometers, its width is as much as 600 kilometers, and it reaches 8 kilometers deep at points."

NASA link

Awesome.... but my inner nerd keeps telling me the photo is clearly a Temporal Rift-Echo in the Space/Time Continuum related to an epic fight between the Enterprise NCC-1701 and a Klingon Battle Cruiser.....

1 comment:

woobot said...

Awesome... oh, man how your mind works!