8 must visit locations on Mars for future space tourists

Located in Tharsis Montes region, Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The volume of Olympus Mons is approximately 100 times that of Mauna Loa. The entire chain of Hawaiian islands (Kauai to Hawaii) could fit inside Olympus Mons, according to Nasa. (Image credit: Nasa)

With 12 large volcanoes, Tharsis Montes is the largest volcanic region on the red planet. According to Nasa, major difference between volcanoes on Mars and Earth is their magnitude; volcanoes in the Tharsis region can be up to 100 times greater than those on Earth.(Image credit: Nasa)

With a valley that extends 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the solar system, according to Nasa. Its origins remain unknown though theories suggest that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled down. (Image credit: Nasa)

According to NASA, temperatures near the north and south poles are so cold during the winter that carbon dioxide condenses from the atmosphere and forms ice on the surface. The process is reversed in the summer, when carbon dioxide sublimates back into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide evaporates completely in the northern hemisphere, leaving just a water ice cap. However, some of the carbon dioxide ice lingers in the southern atmosphere. (Image credit: Nasa)

Gale Crater, which became renowned after the Curiosity rover landed there in 2012, contains substantial evidence of past water. Mount Sharp, also known as Aeolis Mons, is a stratified mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale Crater that rises more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor, where Curiosity had been operating since its August 2012 landing. (Image credit: Nasa)

Medusae Fossae is one of the strangest places on Mars, with some suggesting that it contains traces of a UFO crash. The most plausible hypothesis is that it is a massive volcanic deposit, roughly one-fifth the size of the United States. (Image credit: ESA)

Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes, like as those at Hale Crater, are thought to be caused by the seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are nearly as long as a football field, according to Nasa. NASA first stated that the hydrated salts were evidence of running water on the surface, but later studies revealed that the RSL might have formed from atmospheric water or dry sand flows. (Image credit: Nasa)

Dune fields dot the red planet's surface, and surviving aeolian strata suggest that dunes existed on ancient Mars as well. It has been suggested that the pit fields examined in Noctis Labyrinthus and Hellas basin are castings of dunes from two old dune fields that were largely buried during the Hesperian. (Image credit: Nasa)