Tags: Crater.

Messina Chasma is the largest canyon on the surface of the Uranian moon Titania and is named after a location in William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The 1492 km long chasma is made of two normal faults running NW–SE which bound a down-dropped crustal block forming a structure called graben.

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