The "Plain of the Moon," perched between the great canyon and the flood channels.
Lunae Planum is a high, ridged basaltic plateau whose Latin name means "Plain of the Moon." It sits at a crossroads of Martian geology, bordered by Valles Marineris to the south and carved along its edge by the giant Kasei Valles outflow channels.
Claim your plot here →Lunae Planum is an elevated volcanic plateau crossed by long wrinkle ridges, buckles left as its basalt cooled and the crust compressed. Its position is what makes it special: it forms the northern gateway to Valles Marineris, the solar system's largest canyon, and its western flank is deeply scoured by Kasei Valles, among the biggest flood channels on Mars.
That setting records two of Mars' grandest processes side by side — the tectonic rifting that opened Valles Marineris and the catastrophic floods that gouged Kasei. Standing on Lunae Planum, you would be poised on the rim between a canyon deep enough to swallow Earth's Grand Canyon many times over and a channel carved by unimaginable torrents of water.