The fracture is this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft cuts right through a hill, indicating tremendous tectonic stresses were at work to create this feature.

The fracture is this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft cuts right through a hill, indicating tremendous tectonic stresses were at work to create this feature.
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