"The small town Eos clung to the rim of Eos Chasma, near the eastern end of Valles Marineris." (p. 53)
"...the incredible steeps and deeps of the Valles rived the planet across well-nigh a fifth of its girth." (ibid.)
Doctor Manhattan: Ah, but we near the Valles Marineris. You may see for yourself.
-Alan Moore, Watchmen (London, 1987), CHAPTER IX, p. 18, panel 3.
Doctor Manhattan: It stretches more than three thousand miles, so that one end knows day while the other endures night.
Doctor Manhattan: Temperature differences breed shrieking winds that herd oceans of fog along a canyon four miles deep.
Doctor Manhattan: Does the human mind know chasms so abysmal?
-Alan Moore, op. cit., p. 19, panel 1.
(Because Watchmen is a graphic novel, the illustrator/letterer, Dave Gibbons, and the colorist, John Higgins, are able to show us what Manhattan (the naked blue guy) is talking about.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I think the Valles Marineris would be the logical location for a terraformed Mars to have a sea!
Ad astra! Sean
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