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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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• The Curious Case for Methane on Mars: Methane and Active Organics Discovered on Mars
  ...equivocally, “…there is [[methane]] occasionally present in the atmosphere of Mars and there are organics preserved in (…) rocks on Mars.” ...d] be sufficient to maintain pockets of liquid water underground.” Pockets of liquid water would be conducive to life and it has been confirmed that liqu
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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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• Martian gullies
  ...ove’’ at its head, a fan-shaped ''apron'' at its base, and a single thread of incised ''channel'' connecting the two. The whole gully resembles an hourg ...idence for recent groundwater seepage and surface runoff on Mars | url = | journal = Science | volume = 288 | issue = | pages = 2330–2335 | doi=10.1126/scie
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• InSight Mission
  ...down at exactly 2:52:59 p.m. EST. We found out about the landing by way of two small experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats. They were launched See the [[Interior of Mars]] for more information of Mars' structure.
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• Oceans on Mars
  [[File:Marsoceanimage.jpg|600pxr| Drawing showing the extent of ocean on Mars]] ...ns on Mars. Nevertheless, it must be said that although there are decades of accumulated evidence for a Martian ocean, the idea remains controversial. <
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• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  ...e:Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An artist's impression of the '''Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter''' above the Red Planet.]] [[File:MRO Liftoff.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Lift off of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Atlas V on August 12, 2005]]
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• Martian features that are signs of water ice
  ...Decades ago, theoretical studies showed that ice could exist under a cover of material that needed to be very thick near the equator, but at higher latit [[Image: Mars Odyssey spacecraft model.png |thumb|200px|left|Artist view of Mars Odyssey]]
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• Layers on Mars
  ...| date = 2000 | title = Ancient sedimentary rocks of early Mars | url = | journal = Science | volume = 290 | issue = 5498| pages = 1927–1937 | doi = 10.112 Layers show up in the walls of craters.
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• Eridania quadrangle
  ...ania quadrangle once had a large lake. The region includes a wide variety of features that are widespread on Mars, but extremely rare on the Earth. Eri ...Kepler Crater is named after Johannes Kepler who developed Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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• Aeolis quadrangle
  File:USGS-Mars-MC-23-AeolisRegion-mola.png|Labeled topo map of Aeolis quadrangle Colors indicate elevation File:PIA00183-MC-23-AeolisRegion-19980605.jpg|Image of the Aeolis Quadrangle (MC-23). The northern part contains Elysium Planitia.
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• Oxia Palus quadrangle
  ...f>https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/</ref> This quadrangle covers parts of many regions: Chryse Planitia, Arabia Terra, Xanthe Terra, Margaritifer Ter ...web|url=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rover/descrip.html|title=Description of the Rover Sojourner|</ref>
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• Hellas quadrangle
  </gallery>The most famous feature of this area is the [[Hellas Basin|Hellas]] basin, a impact crater 2300 km in ...> Many places in the Hellas quadrangle show signs that the ground is full of ice, especially with glacier-like flow features.
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• Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle
  ...itude. Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle contains Margaritifer Terra and parts of Xanthe Terra, Noachis Terra, Arabia Terra, and Meridiani Planum. ...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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• High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
  ...ion Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Volume 112, Issue E5</ref> <ref>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi ...l36camerascomparedwidthslabeled.jpg|HiRISE images are 5 km wide and can be of various lengths. HiRISE is far more powerful than the camera on Mars Globa
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• Ismenius Lacus quadrangle
  ...ted Silicates in Crustal Outcrops in the Northern Plains of Mars | url = | journal = Science | volume = 328 | issue = 5986| pages = 1682–1686 | </ref> ...orldwind.arc.nasa.gov/.</ref> The Ismenius Lacus quadrangle contains parts of regions named Acidalia Planitia, Arabia Terra, Vastitas Borealis, and Terra
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• Geological processes that have shaped Mars: Why Mars looks like it does
  ...r, but both have the same land area. Mars has about one third the gravity of the Earth.]] ...dioxide (dry ice) produces the ubiquitous gullies found in numerous areas of the planet.
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• Curiosity
  ...nstruments for scientific investigation. One of the goals is to find signs of life on the Martian surface or a few centimeters below. ...ter the famous science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was picked for the name of the touchdown spot.<ref > Pyle, R. 2014. Curiosity. Prometheus Books. A
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• What Mars Actually Looks Like!
  ...face. Many of the scenes shown here are about one would see at the height of a helicopter. ...find sites that could contain interesting features. I was lucky that many of my suggestions were photographed, and I was able to gather them together fo
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• HiWish program
  ...sh program as of March 2016.<ref>McEwen, A. et al. 2016. THE FIRST DECADE OF HIRISE AT MARS. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016) 1372.pd ...little different since the gravity of Mars is only about one third as that of the Earth.
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• The Observational History of Mars as a Pathway for a Human Mission
  ...ces /><big>The Advancements In and Importance of the Observational History of Mars as a Pathway for a Human Mission</big> ...ible in order to ensure the safest arrival, visit, and eventual settlement of Mars. Between Elon Musk and SpaceX to Robert Zubrin and the Mars Society, t
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