Amazing Flyover Reveals What Soaring Across Mars Would Look Like

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—someday. The planet offers so many cool places to study, and doing it in person is something for future Marsnauts to consider.. It now gives us an up-close look now, through an animation of thousands of images of Mars from its cameras.

This shattered terrain is a system of valleys that stretch out across nearly 1,200 kilometers. Scientists combined ESA's Mars Express images into an amazing flyover of this terrain, giving us a tasty hint of what future explorers will see.This maze of valleys didn't just happen overnight. It's a fracture zone at the heart of a region called the Tharsis Rise.

The intersecting canyons and valleys created by the volcanic stresses may look small here, but they are up to 30 km wide and six km deep. Over the millennia, gigantic landslides thundered down the slopes, covering up the older surface units. It's somewhat analogous to flying over and through Earth's Grand Canyon and studying the cross-cutting fracture zone at its base. Such a flyover would show the earliest structures that contribute to the complexity of the Canyon.It's cool to think of Mars Express focusing a high-resolution movie camera on the surface. However, this movie comprises many individual images. The views come from more than eight Mars Express orbits.

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