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- The Martian landscape is a classic
- study of contrasts, from deep
- craters to towering volcanos,
- from a whispy atmosphere to
- raging dust storms, it is not
- a boring planet.
-
- Branching off of the 2500 mile
- long Valles Marineris (Mariner
- Valley) is this small section
- called the Gangis Chasma which
- itself is nearly 350 miles
- in length.
-
- This image was created by computer
- using a digital map of Mars,
- and is therefore not a "real"
- photograph but synthesized from
- radar data.
-