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A picture of Candor Chasma in the foreground with Ophir Chasma in the background. ( Map of Mars / Map of Valles Marineris )
These valleys are found near Valles Marineris on Mars. Valles Marineris is 300 kilometers across and 10 kilometers deep.
Close-up of top left-hand side (182 Kb)
Close-up of top right-hand side (182 Kb)
Picture of the East Candor, one of the connected valleys of Valles Marineris by the Viking 1 orbiter spacecraft.
This part of the East Candor Chasma ( map of Mars ) is 150 kilometers wide. It has steep, walled cliffs.
Pictures of the Viking Orbiter 1 spacecraft
Picture of Valles Marineris region. ( Map of Valles Marineris ). This canyon is over 3,000 kilometers long and about 8 kilometers deep.
This large valley / chasma might have formed when this whole area collapsed over time 8 kilometers into the surface of Mars.
False-color representation of elevations within the floor of the Valles Marineris canyon system.
Another, larger picture of the depts within Valles Marineris.
Picture of the Hellas Planitia region ( map of Mars ) on Mars. (Planitia means a lowlying plain or large, relatively featureless lowlands). The Hellas basin is 1 800 kilometers in diameter - the largest basin on the planet Mars. Impact basins are formed when a large asteroid, comet or meteor hits the surface of Mars.
A false-color topographic model of the region around the Hellas basin on Mars.
The black lines indicate zero-elevation for this area.
A close-up picture of Coprates chasma on Mars. Notice the landslides at the top left-hand on the picture - where the white lines cross.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
This image is part of a mosaic composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars in 1980.
Noctis Labyrinthus is the system of graben to the west (left). Its bright white layers of material may consist of deposits of carbonates.
The color variations have been enhanced by a factor of about two.
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