{"id":246520,"date":"2026-11-04T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/giant-canyon-on-mars-is-still-tectonically-active-today"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:13:09","slug":"giant-canyon-on-mars-is-still-tectonically-active-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/giant-canyon-on-mars-is-still-tectonically-active-today","title":{"rendered":"Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.<\/p>\n<p>New research presents direct seismic evidence that a marsquake (Mars\u2019s equivalent of an earthquake) detected by NASA\u2019s InSight lander originated beneath the vast Martian canyon system, Valles Marineris, and was caused by rocks slipping along a fault deep within the planet\u2019s crust.<\/p>\n<p>The finding suggests that faults established during the formation and early evolution of Valles Marineris billions of years ago can remain weak enough to rupture under stresses acting on Mars today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed. New research presents direct seismic evidence that a marsquake (Mars\u2019s equivalent of an earthquake) detected by NASA\u2019s InSight lander originated beneath the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}