3D print Noctis Labyrinthus, the labyrinth of night on Mars

A maze of canyons on one print: the crossing troughs of Noctis Labyrinthus between the Tharsis volcanoes and Valles Marineris, from Mars elevation data.

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3D printed relief map of Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars, a high plateau cut by a maze of crossing canyons.
Rendered with Blender. The tile was exported from Mini Skyline. This is not an AI image.

Where it is 6.36°S 101.19°W Mars

Size
About 1,190 km (740 mi) across
Canyons
Up to 30 km wide and 6 km deep
Formed by
Stretching of the crust by Tharsis volcanism
Name
Latin, "labyrinth of night"
Noctis Labyrinthus model, low angle
6 mm of relief

993 by 990 km of Mars, 160 mm across

About Noctis Labyrinthus

Noctis Labyrinthus, the "labyrinth of night", is a maze of canyons about 1,190 km (740 mi) across at the western end of Valles Marineris. ESA measures its canyons at up to 30 km (19 mi) wide and 6 km (3.7 mi) deep.

It formed when volcanism in the nearby Tharsis region pushed up and stretched the crust until it cracked, and blocks of ground sank between the faults to leave the network of troughs. This print frames about 1,000 km of the maze; its far western ends fall just outside.

Sources: IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Noctis Labyrinthus, ESA: Fly across Mars' labyrinth of night, DLR: Six-kilometre-deep canyons in the labyrinth of the night

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