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| x Olympus Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | 18 |
Olympus Mons (Latin for Mount Olympus) is a large volcanic mountain on the planet Mars. At a height of nearly 22 km (14 mi), it is one of the tallest known mountains in the Solar System, almost three times as tall as Mount Everest. Olympus Mons is...
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| x Tharsis |
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Mars | Volcanic plateau |
The Tharsis region on Mars is a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in Mars’ western hemisphere. The region is home to the largest volcanoes in the Solar System, including the three enormous shield volcanoes Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and...
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| x Valles Marineris |
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Mars | Valley |
Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up...
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| x Arsia Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | -8.4 |
Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. To its north is Pavonis Mons, and north of that is Ascraeus Mons. The tallest mountain in the solar...
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| x Ascraeus Mons |
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Mars | Mountain | 11.9 |
Ascraeus Mons is a large shield volcano located in the Tharsis region of the planet Mars. It is the northernmost and tallest of three shield volcanoes collectively known as the Tharsis Montes. The volcano's location corresponds to the classical...
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| x Elysium Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars, after Tharsis Montes. It is centered at 2°00′N 155°00′E / 2.0°N 155.0°E / 2.0; 155.0. It includes volcanoes, from north to south, Hecates Tholus, Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus....
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| x Amazonis Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic provinces to the west of Olympus Mons in the Valles Marineris region of the Memnonia quadrangle, centered at 24°48′N 196°00′E / 24.8°N...
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| x Hellas Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Hellas Planitia, also known as the Hellas Impact Basin, is a huge, roughly circular impact basin located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. It is the second or third largest impact crater and the largest visible impact crater known in...
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| x Chryse Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Chryse Planitia (Greek, "Golden Plain") is a smooth circular plain in the northern equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region to the west, centered at 26°42′N 320°00′E / 26.7°N 320.0°E / 26.7; 320.0. Chryse Planitia lies partially in...
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| x Utopia Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Utopia Planitia (Latin: "Nowhere Plain") is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars with an estimated diameter of 3300 km, and is the Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976. It is located...
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| x Argyre Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Argyre Planitia is a plain located in the Argyre impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars. Its name comes from a map produced by Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877; it refers to Argyre, a mythical island of silver in Greek mythology.
Argyre lies...
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| x Isidis Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Isidis Planitia is a plain located inside a giant impact basin on Mars, centered at 12°54′N 87°00′E / 12.9°N 87.0°E / 12.9; 87.0. It is the third biggest impact structure on the planet after the Hellas and Argyre basins – it is about 1500 km in...
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| x Acidalia Planitia |
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Mars | Planitia |
Acidalia Planitia is a plain on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis volcanic province and Arabia Terra to the north of Valles Marineris, centered at 46°42′N 338°00′E / 46.7°N 338.0°E / 46.7; 338.0. The plain contains the famous Cydonia region...
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| x Candor Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Candor Chasma is one of the largest canyons in the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. The feature is geographically divided into two halves: East and West Candor Chasmas, respectively. It is unclear how the canyon originally formed; one theory...
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| x Echus Chasma | Mars | Chasma |
Echus Chasma is a chasma in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. Clay has been found in Echus Chasma that means that water once sat there for a time.
Echus Chasma is approximately 100 km long and 10 km...
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| x Eos Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Eos Chasma is a chasma in the southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars.
Eos Chasma’s western floor is mainly composed of an etched massive material composed of either volcanic or eolian deposits later eroded by the Martian wind....
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| x Ganges Chasma | Mars | Chasma |
The Ganges Chasma is a deep canyon at the eastern end of the vast Valles Marineris system on Mars, an offshoot of Eos Chasma. It is named after the River Ganges in South Asia. It has been tentatively identified as an outflow channel.
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| x Melas Chasma |
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Mars | Chasma |
Melas Chasma is a canyon on Mars, the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon system, located east of Ius Chasma at 9.8°S, 283.6°E. It cuts through layered deposits that are thought to be sediments from an old lake that resulted from runoff of...
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| x Claritas Rupes |
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Mars | Rupes |
Claritas Rupes is a scarp in the Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle of Mars, located at 26° South and 105.4° West. It is 924 km long and was named after an albedo feature at 25S, 110W.
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| x Athabasca Vallis |
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Mars | Vallis |
Athabasca Valles is an outflow channel on Mars, cut into its surface by catastrophic flooding. It is one of the youngest known of these structures, probably forming only in the geologically recent past of Mars. The flood produced distinctive ...
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| x Ares Vallis |
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Mars | Vallis |
Ares Vallis is an outflow channel on Mars, named after the Greek name for Mars: Ares, the god of war; it appears to have been carved by fluids, perhaps water. The valley 'flows' northwest out of the hilly Margaritifer Terra, where the Iani Chaos...
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| x Airy-0 |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Airy-0 is a crater on Mars whose location defines the position of the prime meridian of that planet. It is about 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) across and lies within the larger crater Airy in the region Sinus Meridiani.
It was named in honor of the...
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| x Airy |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Airy is an impact crater on Mars, named in honor of the British Astronomer, Royal Sir George Biddell Airy (1801–1892). The crater is approximately 40 kilometers in diameter and is located at 0.1°E 5.1°S in the Meridiani Planum region. The much...
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| x Barnard | Mars | Impact crater |
Barnard is a lunar crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the southeast rim of the large crater Humboldt, and Abel lies directly to the south. To the northeast is the crater Curie, while to the southeast is the...
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| x Becquerel |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Becquerel is a lunar crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This is an ancient and heavily worn formation that is now little more than an irregular depression in the surface. The outer rim has been worn and reshaped...
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| x Milankovic | Mars | Impact crater |
Milankovic is a lunar crater that is located in the high northern latitudes on the far side of the Moon. Overlapping the southeastern rim is the smaller but more sharply defined crater Ricco. Just to the south is Karpinskiy, and to the north is the...
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| x Ptolemaeus |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Ptolemaeus is an ancient lunar impact crater close to the center of the near side. To the south-southeast Ptolemaeus is joined to the rim of the crater Alphonsus by a section of rugged, irregular terrain, and these form a prominent chain with...
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| x Mendel | Mars | Impact crater |
Mendel is a large Impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the southern fringe of the huge skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the south-southwest of Mendel is Lippmann, an even larger...
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| x Ritchey | Mars | Impact crater |
Ritchey is a small lunar impact crater situated to the east of Albategnius in the central lunar highlands. Its somewhat angular rim is broken along the northwestern wall by a pair of smaller, adjacent craters. The floor of Ritchey is fairly flat,...
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| x Avernus Colles |
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Mars |
Avernus Colles is a region of fractured terrain on Mars on the southeast margin of Elysium Planitia, at 1.6°S, 171°E. It is fairly large, being 244km (152mi) in diameter. It was named in 1985 after a lake in Campania, Italy, which is believed by...
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| x Cape Verde |
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Mars |
Cape Verde is a large promontory on the rim of Victoria Crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched atop this feature to take a true color mosaic of the crater below. Sols 958 to 991 were spent on this cape,...
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| x Cerberus Hemisphere |
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Mars |
Cerberus Hemisphere is a part of Mars' geography and refers to the area approximately of Latitude: 20° South to 55° North and Longitude: 150° to 230°.
Prominent features of the Cerberus Hemisphere include:
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| x Cydonia |
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Mars | Albedo feature |
Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars, and has attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally referred to the albedo feature (distinctively coloured area) that was visible from Earthbound telescopes. The area borders plains of...
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| x Geysers on Mars |
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Mars |
Martian geysers are putative sites of small-scale jet-like eruptions that are believed to occur in the south polar region of Mars during the spring thaw. "Dark dune spots" and "spiders" are the two most visible types of features ascribed to these...
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| x Deuteronilus Mensae | Mars |
Deuteronilus Mensae is a region on Mars 937 km across and centered at 43°54′N 337°24′W / 43.9°N 337.4°W / 43.9; -337.4. It covers 344° -325° West and 40°-48° North. Deuteronilus region lies just to the north of Arabia Terra and is included in the...
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| x Eridania Lake | Mars |
Eridania Lake is a theorized ancient lake on Mars with a surface area of roughly 1.1 million square kilometers. It is located at the source of the Ma'adim Vallis outflow channel. As Eridania Lake dried out in the late Noachian epoch it divided into...
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| x Iani Chaos |
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Mars |
Iani Chaos, the source region of Ares Vallis on Mars, is centered at ~342°E, 2°S. The chaotic terrain is widely believed to have formed via the removal of subsurface water or ice, resulting in flooding at the surface, and the formation of Ares...
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| x Labes | Mars |
Labes (plural: labes) is a Latin word used by exogeologists to refer to chaotic regions, featuring ridges and steep valleys, in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. Labes are named after the nearest classical albedo feature.
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| x Mars surface color |
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Mars |
The apparent color of the Martian surface enabled humans to distinguish it from other planets early in human history and motivated them to weave fables of war in association with Mars. One of its earliest names, Har decher, literally meant "Red One"...
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| x Martian soil |
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Mars |
Martian soil is the fine regolith found on the surface of Mars. Its properties can differ significantly from those of terrestrial soil.
The term Martian soil typically refers to the finer fraction of regolith, that which is composed of grains one...
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| x Medusae Fossae Formation | Mars |
The Medusae Fossae Formation is a broad geological unit of uncertain origin on the planet Mars. It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. "Fossae" is Latin for "trenches". Located roughly at 5°S 213°E / 5°S 213°E / -5; 213, it straddles the...
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| x Nilo Syrtis |
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Mars |
Nilo Syrtis (or Nilosyrtis) is a region just north of Syrtis Major Planum on Mars, at approximately 23°N, 76°E and an elevation of −0.5 km. It marks a region of transition (a "crustal dichotomy") between southern highland and northern lowland...
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| x North Polar Basin |
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Mars |
The North Polar Basin, or Borealis basin, is a large basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars that covers 40% of the planet. Chryse Planitia, the landing site of the Viking 1 lander, is a bay which opens into this basin.
One possible explanation for...
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| x Olympia Undae |
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Mars |
Olympia Undae is a vast dune field in the north polar region of the planet Mars. It consists of a broad “sand sea” or erg that partly rings the north polar plateau (Planum Boreum) from about 120° to 240°E longitude and 78° to 83°N latitude....
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| x Sleepy Hollow |
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Mars |
Sleepy Hollow is the name given to a circular, shallow depression in Gusev Crater on Mars near the landing site of the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" in 2004.
About 12 meters from the landing site, Sleepy Hollow measures about 9 meters across.
The...
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| x Solis Lacus | Mars |
Solis Lacus (85° W, 26° S) is a dark feature on Mars. It was once called "Oculus" and is still commonly called "The Eye of Mars" because with the surrounding light area called Thaumasia it resembles the pupil of one. Solis Lacus is known for the...
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| x Ultimi Scopuli | Mars |
Ultimi Scopuli is a region near the south pole of Mars. It is characterized by a large number of scopuli (lobate or irregular scarps).
The northernmost part of the region was the landing site of the failed Mars Polar Lander spacecraft in 1999.
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| x Aeolis quadrangle |
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Mars |
The Aeolis quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Aeolis quadrangle is also referred to as MC-23 (Mars Chart-23).
The Aeolis quadrangle covers...
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| x Adirondack |
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Mars |
Adirondack is the nickname for Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's first target rock. Scientists chose Adirondack to be Spirit's first target rock after considering another, called Sashimi, that would have been a shorter, straight-ahead drive. Spirit...
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| x Aeolis Mensae |
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Mars |
Aeolis Mensae is tableland feature in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars. Its location is centered at 2.9° south latitude and 219.6° west longitude. It is 820 kilometres (510 mi) long and was named after a classical albedo feature name.
Some places on...
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| x Apollinaris Patera |
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Mars |
Apollinaris Mons is a shield volcano on Mars's surface. It is situated near the equator in the south hemisphere, southeast of the shield volcano Elysium Mons on the Elysium Planitia, and north of Gusev crater. The volcano's crater is named...
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| x Boeddicker Crater |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Boeddicker Crater is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 15° south latitude and 197.7° west longitude. It is 109 km in diameter and was named after Otto Boeddicker, a German astronomer (1853–1937).
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| x Bonneville |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Bonneville is an impact crater on Mars. It is located within the much larger crater Gusev. Bonneville was visited by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in 2004, during its exploration of the floor of Gusev. Bonneville is also the final resting place...
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| x Crivitz | Mars | Impact crater |
Crivitz is an impact crater on Mars. It is named after the small town of Crivitz in western Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The crater has a diameter of 6.1 kilometers and is located at 14.5 deg south and 174.7 deg east, within the larger crater...
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| x Galdakao Crater |
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Mars |
Galdakao Crater is a topographic depression in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 13.5° South and 183.5° West. It is 35 km in diameter and was named after Euskadi (Basque), a town in Spain.
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| x Gale |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Gale is a crater on Mars, near the border of the lowlands of Elysium Planitia at 4°36′S 137°12′E / 4.6°S 137.2°E / -4.6; 137.2. It is 154 km in diameter and believed to be about 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old. The crater was named after Walter...
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| x Grissom Hill |
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Mars |
Grissom Hill, named after American astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, is one of the three Apollo 1 Hills on the planet Mars. It was discovered by the Spirit rover, and named on January 27, 2004 - the 37th anniversary of the Apollo 1 launchpad fire,...
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| x Gusev crater |
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Mars | Impact crater |
Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at 14°30′S 175°24′E / 14.5°S 175.4°E / -14.5; 175.4. The crater is about 166 kilometers in diameter and formed approximately three to four billion years ago. It was named after Russian...
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| x Home Plate |
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Mars |
Home Plate is a plateau roughly 90 m across within the Columbia Hills, Mars. It is informally named for its similarity in shape to a baseball home plate. Home Plate is a rocky outcrop that appears to show layered features.
The plateau has been...
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| x Ma'adim Vallis |
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Mars |
Ma'adim Vallis is one of the largest outflow channels on Mars, about 700 km long and significantly larger than Earth's Grand Canyon. It is over 20 km wide and 2 km deep in some places. It runs from a region of southern lowlands thought to have once...
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