A cool new flyover of Mars gives us a taste of what it's like to hover over the Noctis Labyrinthus region of the Red Planet.
A view of Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars, from Mars Odyssey data. ESA's Mars Express has created a flyover video from eight years of its data. Courtesy Mars Odyssey.
One of the most striking areas on Mars is its Noctis Labyrinthus—Latin for the “Labyrinth of Night.” It lies between Mars’s Valles Marineris and the gigantic volcanoes of the Tharsis Bulge. 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.
The crust actually grew thinner and structures called “grabens” formed. Think of grabens as trenches of material that settled down as the crust thinned and extended. In addition, there are fractures running under most of the region. Some of the grabens are as deep as 5,000 meters, a testament to the tectonic forces at work in Mars’s ancient past.A flight over Noctis Labyrinthus is a trip through time. For example, the highest plateaus in the imagery represent the original surface level.
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