The Mars Express spacecraft took pictures of two faults in the crust of Mars, which are part of the Mariner Valleys. This system is also called the Grand Canyon of the Red Planet, although there is a slight inaccuracy in this, according to the European Space Agency..

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The length of the canyon is 4000 kilometers, the width is 200 kilometers, and the depth is up to seven kilometers.. It is almost 10 times longer, 20 times wider and five times deeper than the American Grand Canyon.. The Mariner Valleys are the largest canyon system in the solar system.. If it were located on Earth, it would stretch from the north of Norway to the tip of Sicily..

There is another difference between these two structures.. The Grand Canyon was formed by the flow of the Colorado River.. The Mariner valleys are the result of the movement of tectonic plates..

The new images show two gorges that belong to the western part of the Mariner Valleys.. In the south is the Ius Gorge, 840 km long, and in the north, the Titonium Gorge, 805 km long.. At the top of this gorge, you can see a patch of dark sand.. It is believed that it may have come from the nearby volcanic region of Tarshish..

Previously, the Perseverance rover discovered mysterious " Representatives of NASA said that this is most likely garbage left over from past missions, but it is not yet possible to say exactly what kind of objects they are..