Fly across Mars' 'Labyrinth of Night': Incredible video reveals what it would be like to soar over the surface of the Red Planet

Ever wondered what it would be like to fly over the surface of Mars? That's because the European Space Agency has shared an animation offering an overhead glimpse of one of the Red Planet's most stunning spectacles, Noctis Labyrinthus — Latin for 'Labyrinth of Night'. The video was put together with the help of images taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, which has been mapping the Martian surface for two decades. 'As the crust bulged in the Tharsis province it stretched apart the surrounding terrain, ripping fractures several kilometres deep and leaving blocks – graben – stranded within the resulting trenches,' the European Space Agency said. Orbiter: The video was put together with the help of images taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, which has been mapping the Martian surface for two decades Busy: Mars Express has taken thousands of images since arriving at the fourth planet from the sun in December 2003, including snapping the ruptured landscape of canyons which sit between Mars's Valles Marineris and the huge volcanoes of the Tharsis Bulge Experts combined pictures from Mars Express to create an animation showcasing the 745-mile maze of valleys which are up to 18.6 miles wide and 3.7 miles deep Massive: Such is the vast size of Noctis Labyrinthus that it stretches about the length of Italy, or the river Rhine from its source in the Alps to the North Sea 'This volcanism caused large areas of Martian crust to arch upwards and become stretched and tectonically stressed, leading to it thinning out, faulting and subsiding.'