These might be the most impressive geological structures in the solar system
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These might be the most impressive geological structures in the solar system

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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The grandest canyon I left out the solar system’s biggest volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars, so I could include that planet’s most spectacular canyon, Valles Marineris. Blasted Mercury I’m cheating a little with my next example, because it is both one of the solar system’s largest impact basins and an explosive volcano within it. This is a feature on Uranus’s small moon Miranda that is often described as “the tallest cliff in the solar system”, including on a recent Nasa website. Here, a large depression in Titan’s water-ice “bedrock” hosts a sea of liquid methane named Ligeia Mare.

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These five impressive geological structures in our solar system will blow your mind – Firstpost
3 years, 7 months ago

These five impressive geological structures in our solar system will blow your mind – Firstpost

Firstpost  

When we talk about amazing geological features, we often limit ourselves to those on Earth. The grandest canyon I left out the solar system’s biggest volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars, so I could include that planet’s most spectacular canyon, Valles Marineris. Blasted Mercury I’m cheating a little with my next example, because it is both one of the solar system’s …

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