Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Credit: Viking Project, USGS, NASA
The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth’s Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, 30 kilometers across, and 1.8 kilometers deep. The origin of the Valles Marineris remains unknown, although a leading hypothesis holds that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled. Several geologic processes have been identified in the canyon. The above mosaic was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s.
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Roatan
Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands, which are a part of Honduras, lying just over 30 miles from the northern coast of the Honduran mainland
Image of the day -March 27 2011
Riot police stand in front of a burning barricade in Jermyn Street during clashes with a small group of protesters after a march against government spending cuts
Photographer: Felix Clay for The Guardian
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French soldiers are winched down from a helicopter next to an E2C-Hawkeye airborne early warning and control plane on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during the international military operations in Libya
Image courtesy Guardian UK
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Whoppi Goldberg explodes at Donald Trump about Obama’s birth certificate on the View [Updated with Video]
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Whoopi Goldberg got into a furious argument with Donald Trump about President Obama’s birth certificate on Wednesday’s “The View.”
Trump, who has been talking about running for president, has been drawing attention for his comments about Obama’s citizenship. He repeated some of them on “The View.”
“Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate?” Trump said. “Why should he have to?” Whoopi cut in.
“Because I have to and everybody else has to, Whoopi,” Trump said. He continued that he believed Obama has a birth certificate, but that he should show it to clear the “pall” hanging over him. Then, he said that it was odd that “nobody from [Obama's] early years remembers him,” and that there was “something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.” This last comment seemed to be the final straw for Whoopi—and for Barbara Walters.
“That’s a terrible thing to say,” she said, as Whoopi exclaimed, “oh my God…that’s the biggest pile of dog mess I’ve heard in ages.” She continued, “it’s not ’cause he’s black, is it?” Trump said it had “nothing to do with that.”
“Because I’ve never heard any white President asked to be shown the birth certificate,” Whoopi said heatedly, pounding her fist into her hand. “When you become the President of the United States of America, you know that he’s American. I’m sorry. That’s B.S.”
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