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    here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter H – N (see also lists for A – G and O – Z). Large Martian craters (greater than 60 kilometers...
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  • Illinois Hutton (lunar crater) Hutton (Martian crater) 6130 Hutton, an asteroid Hutton (surname), a list of people Hutton Gibson (born 1918), American writer...
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    the 154 km (96 mi) wide crater. Thus, it is believed that the rover may have the opportunity to study two billion years of Martian history in the sediments...
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    geochemical conditions in Gale Crater were once suitable for microbial life after analyzing the first drilled sample of Martian rock, "John Klein" rock at...
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    labeled Hutton Crater Area, as seen by HiRISE. Click on image to see patterned ground. Phillips Crater Area, as seen by HiRISE Suess (Martian crater), as...
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    the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles...
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    first time scale for Mars was developed by studying the impact crater densities on the Martian surface. Through this method four periods have been defined...
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    object with a perihelion below the aphelion of Mars (1.67 AU) but above the Martian perihelion (1.38 AU). The JPL SBDB lists 13,500 Mars-crossing asteroids...
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    layers. In 1830, geologist Charles Lyell, developing ideas found in James Hutton's works, popularized the concept that the features of Earth were in perpetual...
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    S2CID 15378780. Burns, J. A. (1978), "The dynamical evolution and origin of the Martian moons", Vistas in Astronomy, 22 (2): 193–208, Bibcode:1978VA.....22..193B...
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    Researchers have found a number of examples of deltas that formed in Martian lakes. Finding deltas is a major sign that Mars once had large amounts...
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    have found a Martian period of two years. Finally, Poole points to what he calls a "genetic debt": while details on for instance the Martian period could...
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    observations of features in the surface on Mars that he claimed as artificial Martian canals (due to a mistranslation of a previous paper by Schiaparelli on...
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  • 1102 Pepita, named after his nickname, and by the 127-kilometer wide Martian crater Comas Sola. The official naming citation was published by the Minor...
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  • September 1985 (M.P.C. 10044). He is also honored by both a lunar and a Martian crater (Da Vinci and Da Vinci, respectively). The asteroid is one of several...
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