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Monday, May 18, 2015
Discover Valles Marineris
This is one of three vintage-looking travel posters released by SpaceX for some of Mars’s more exotic locales.
Valles Marineris is a canyon system that runs for roughly 2,500 miles east-to-west near the Martian equator. It’s about 3 miles deep at its deepest, and part of the canyon appear as though it was formed by flowing water.
We’re probably not going to visit any of these places in the near future—even if we do end up heading to Mars soon, there are more hospitable places to settle. But if colonizing Mars isn’t extreme enough for you, climbing Olympus Mons certainly seems like a worthy goal.