Giant Canyon on Mars Is Still Tectonically Active Today
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Mars has long been considered geologically dead, but new measurements in the huge Valles Marineris prove that the unexpected happens deep underground.
Giant Canyon on Mars Is Still Tectonically Active Today
Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.
Scientists have found that the giant canyon system on the Red Planet continues to show activity and change the appearance of Mars even billions of years after its emergence.
The Valles Marineris on Mars emerged billions of years ago, but the vast ravine region is apparently still tectonically active. A new analysis of a Mars quake indicates lateral sliding along a deep fault in the western canyon. Thus, ancient weakness zones can still give in even on a planet without earth-like plate tectonics. London (England). Mars has [...] The post In the largest Mars canyon the crust is still in motion appeared first on scanxx
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