stackyFACTSValles Marineris stretches across the Martian equator like a massive, jagged scar proving our local planet's features are laughably tiny. It runs for thousands of miles and plunges incredibly deep, formed not by water, but by the aggressive tearing of the planetary crust back when the planet was throwing tectonic tantrums.
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