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• Columbus Crater
  ...pectrometers reveal the types of minerals present based on the wavelengths of light they absorb. These minerals would appear if a large lake had slowl ...r for their formation. The polyhydrated sulfates form a ring near the top of the crater walls--like a bathtub ring.<ref>https://authors.library.caltech.
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• Ritchey Crater
  ...re Planitia, a large impact crater.<ref>Moore, P. et al. 1990. The Atlas of the Solar System. Crescent Books. NY</ref> File:RitcheyMartianCrater.jpg|Topography of Ritchey Crater
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• Transverse Aeolian ridges (TARs)
  ...-toned features typically found in spots on Mars, especially on the floors of channels. Thus they sever as markers for where channels are located. The ...n Ridge (TAR)", in Hargitai, Henrik; Kereszturi, Ákos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 2177–2185, doi:10.1007/9
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• MOC Public Targeting Program
  ...ience investigation. Mars: 5. 1-60. doi|10.1555/mars.2010.0001</ref> One of the people wrote in the Planetary Report that working with MGS was as excit ...lanetary cruise through primary mission". Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 106 (E10): 23429–23570. Bibcode:2001JGR...10623429M. doi:10.1029/2000JE0
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• Gusev Crater
  [[Image:GusevCrater.gif|thumb|200px|right|Image of the Gusev Crater]] ...t is 144 km (90 mi) in diameter and provided an ideal landing zone for one of the [[:category:Mars Exploration Rover Mission|MER]] rovers, [[Spirit]]. S
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• Medusae Fossae
  The Medusae Fossae Formation is a large geological formation of probable volcanic origin on the planet [[Mars]].<ref> "The Medusa Fossae fo It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. "Fossae" is Latin for "trenches".
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• Phoenix Mars Mission
  #What is the history of water at the landing site? ...issions to Mars, as many practical mission designs assume the availability of easily-extractable water for fuel production and industrial processes. The
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• Regolith
  ...tellites and asteroids. It is a possible construction material in the form of [[brick]]s or [[Compressed regolith|compressed regolith]] blocks. Loose or ...lith formation have been found that look like they were shaped by the flow of water. Those formations were probably created by ''"gas-supported density f
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• Mars Pathfinder
  ...f the [[Viking]] budget in the 1970's. The mission was developed at a cost of under $150 million in 3 years. Mars Pathfinder landed in Ares Vallis, Chrys ...web|url=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rover/descrip.html|title=Description of the Rover Sojourner|</ref>
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• Viking 2
  Viking 2 was one of the two spacecraft of the Viking program that studied Mars both from orbit and from the surface. ...had two main parts. The orbiters photographed nearly the entire surface of Mars, while the lander performed many experiments on the ground. The orbit
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• Rivers on Mars
  ...is, as seen by Mariner 9 This is one of the first images to show evidence of past water on Mars.]] ...ag.org/content/5/3/eaav7710</ref> <ref>Kite, E., et al. 2019. Persistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars history. Science Advances: 5,
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• MAVEN
  ....5 hours. With such a large elliptical orbit it can study different parts of the Martian atmosphere.<ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN</ref> ...ounds max (2550 kilograms) at launch. Its solar cells provide 1135 watts of power at Mars when Mars is furthest from the Sun.<ref> https://www.nasa.go
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• Glaciers on Mars
  ...iation in the Late Amazonian period of Mars: Criteria for the recognition of debris-covered glacier and valley glacier landsystem deposits. Earth and P ...llites orbiting the Red Planet have mapped the exact locations of hundreds of glaciers and glacier-like features that may all contain useable ice. We kn
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• Iapygia quadrangle
  ....nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-071&rn=news.xml&rst=2929 | title=Some of Mars' Missing Carbon Dioxide May be Buried</ref> ...fers to a southeastern section of Italy that includes the heel of the boot of the country. It is near the Adriatic sea.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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• Tharsis
  ...is. [[Alba Patera]] is old and low in elevation, but it has the most area of any Martian volcano. Pavonis Mons can serve as a marker for location, as i ...he Greco-Latin of the biblical Tarshish, the land at the western extremity of the known world.
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• The beauty of Mars from 150 miles
  ...t (HiRISE)]] that orbits Mars. The colors are from a central strip in each of the images. The colors are processed to bring out more information about t ...taken, processed, and released. The satellite mostly just takes pictures of what it passes over; hence, you may have to wait until it passes over somet
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• Lunae Palus quadrangle
  ...'' University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.</ref> Lunae Planum and parts of Xanthe Terra and Chryse Planitia are found in the Lunae Palus quadrangle. ...what the landscape looks like in this region. The origins and significance of all features will be explained as they are currently understood.
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• Spirit
  [[File:PIA05117 modestspiritfolded.jpg |600pxr| Spirit’s landing site Part of Spirit’s solar panel is visible in the foreground. ]] Spirit’s landing site Part of Spirit’s solar panel is visible in the foreground.
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• Cebrenia quadrangle
  ...s relatively smooth plains; the southeast contains [[Hecates Tholus]] (one of three Elysium shield volcanoes) and Phlegra Montes (a ridge system). ..., H.H.; Jakosky, B.M.; Snyder, C.W.; Matthews, M.S., Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.</ref>
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• Arabia quadrangle
  ...flock to our National Parks, like the Grand Canyon, to see similar groups of layered rocks. Dark slope streaks, features unknown on Earth, are common i ...as Arabia Terra. It also contains a part of Terra Sabaea and a small part of Meridiani Planum. It lies on the boundary between the young northern plains
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