<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/69bafb4b-3fd2-4c1b-b79f-2288895d83b6/EE64DABA-BF99-4748-B191-F166993DFA0C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/" href="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/" style="font-size: 11px;">osmoothie.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><P>The pictures, which were snapped from a European Space Agency (ESA) probe, show a region of the Red Planet called the Echus Chasma.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><P>The deeply-incised area is a network of valleys that planetary geologists believe were created by channelling groundwater that once flowed on Mars’ surface.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/osmoothie.com/img/659A30A7-B722-4B81-906B-203044C00554" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><P>Perhaps most surprising is the remarkable resemblance the region bears to the valleys found in the driest areas on Earth, in particular the Grand Canyon.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><P>The Echus Chasma is located just north of the Mars’ equator.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><P>The incision is approximately 100 kilometres long and 10 kilometres wide in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of Valles Marineris.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://osmoothie.com/2008/07/15/mars-photographs-released-by-esa/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/osmoothie.com/img/C4337B8E-40E5-4969-851C-8482C6FB442F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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