‘ Valles Marineris ‘: Largest canyon in solar system

Mars’ Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in our solar system. It is over 4000 km long and 200 km wide, and with a depth of 10 km. This size makes it some ten times longer and five times deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon. 

Where exactly Valles Marineris located?

•    Valles  Marineris is  located along the equator of Mars, on the east side of the  Tharsis Bulge, and stretches for nearly a quarter of the planet’s circumference.

Where is Earth’s Grand Canyon located?

•    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona.

    * A canyon or gorge is a deep narrow vally between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Rivers have a natural tendency to reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water it will eventually drain into. This forms a canyon.