{"id":3925936,"date":"2026-05-13T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/waterworn-chaos-on-mars-stretches-the-length-of-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:03:58","slug":"waterworn-chaos-on-mars-stretches-the-length-of-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/waterworn-chaos-on-mars-stretches-the-length-of-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterworn chaos on Mars stretches the length of Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This month, ESA&#8217;s Mars Express takes us to Shalbatana Vallis: a fascinating Martian valley surrounded by signs of water, lava, craters and chaos. Shalbatana Vallis is an impressive channel near Mars&#8217;s equator. This image, taken by Mars Express&#8217;s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), captures the northern part of the channel, which weaves its way across Mars&#8217;s surface for some 1,300 km\u2014around the length of Italy.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-waterworn-chaos-mars-length-italy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, ESA&#8217;s Mars Express takes us to Shalbatana Vallis: a fascinating Martian valley surrounded by signs of water, lava, craters and chaos. Shalbatana Vallis is an impressive channel near Mars&#8217;s equator. This image, taken by Mars Express&#8217;s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), captures the northern part of the channel, which weaves its way across [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}