J.R. Johnson

Today, a trip to a most excellently named location on Mars, courtesy of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite program.

Fly across Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’ with Mars Express

The video begins on a rotating full-globe of Mars, with white polar caps and mottled tan surface visible. It then zooms in on the westernmost part of the large Valles Marineris canyon system, a region highlighted by a white box, and swaps to a new Mars Express visualisation of Noctis Labyrinthus. The camera then flies slowly across a landscape that is broken apart by deep intersecting valleys and canyons.

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