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Call it the Super-Grand Canyon. Melas Chasma on Mars is 9 kilometers deep in some places, or nearly six times deeper than Earth’s famous landmark on average. How the giant feature was formed, itself one small stretch of the 4000-kilometer-long Valles Marineris rift valley, remains a mystery.

Here’s another Simon’s Cat movie

… to test some maneuvers as the ferry was only two weeks old. From the island of Muhu we went southeast to Kuressaare on the island Saaremaa where we stayed for two nights.

Day 1: Amsterdam - Frankfurt - Vilnius # This year I decided to go on vacation to somewhere I had never been before and never really thought about going to: the Baltic States and Saint Petersburg.

Photo Album ‘Baltic States & Saint Petersburg 2010’

Astronomers have found the most populous alien solar system yet - and it looks a bit like ours. In a study published this month in Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers say they have confirmed five new planets orbiting HD 10180, a star located only 127 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydrus.

They’re not exactly prime real estate, but Martians may have called them home. The craterlike features in this image, taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are not from comet or asteroid impacts.

It’s been a while, but there’s a new movie from Simon’s Cat. More from Simon’s Cat here

Something unusual and mysterious has happened to NGC 4696. Located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, the object is an elliptical galaxy. That should mean a previous collision with another galaxy ripped off its spiral arms, stripped away most of its interstellar gas, and condemned it to a slow death.

Credit: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique It may be tiny, slimy, and blind, but the human fish has one thing going for it: It’s one of the longest-lived animals around.

What is WWT? # The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope - bringing together imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe.