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The Mariner Valley is lso known as Valles Marineris and is actually on Mars, so our solar system. Here are some facts from my astronomy class:

"Valles Marineris runs for almost 4000 km along the Martian equator, about one-fifth of the way around the planet. At its widest, it is some 120 km across, and it is as deep as 7 km in places. Like many Martian surface features, it simply dwarfs Earthly competition. The Grand Canyon in Arizona would easily fit into one of its side "tributary" cracks. Valles Marineris is so large that it can even be seen from Earth"

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