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Is this canyon anywhere near our rovers?

EDIT: looked it up, they're basically on the opposite sides of the planet

Water: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Water&par...

Perseverance rover: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Persevera...

No, and Valles Marineris is about 7km deep in places vs the Grand Canyon's 1.8km max depth, not something a rover could go check out.

Robert Zubrin actually uses Valles Marineris as part of the plot in his work of fiction First Landing that lays out how a manned mission to Mars might go.

Also mentioned in the Expanse book series as region which was colonized by Texans (IIRC) so they have that nice accent.

But a helicopter could. :-)

I'm imagining a future where space colonization is just robots fighting it out / eachother.

You would love to read the Corporation Wars trilogy https://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Wars-Trilogy-Ken-MacLeod-...

I want a movie about that :)

exactly, and in the newfound current era of pinpoint orbit-to-surface landings you might just send a rover too.

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