Feature Image: Candor Chasma Plateau (Released 27 September 2004)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

Context image credit: NASA/JPL/MOLA
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The Odyssey spacecraft has taken some great pictures of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. If this canyon were on Earth, it would stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Image of the Day toured some of the canyons that make up this vast system.

This image shows a part of Candor Chasma. wind etched surfaces are dominant on this picture, but gullies and layered rock formations are also present in this area. The southernmost part of the image shows the plateau area which is thought to predate to the Chasma formation.