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    a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains...
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  • is a list of craters on Mars. Impact craters on Mars larger than 1 km (0.62 mi) exist by the hundreds of thousands, but only about one thousand of them...
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    a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains...
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    This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here contains...
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    Mercurian: 414 craters (7.9%)   Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.1%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (20.9%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.2%)   Others: 1,198 craters (22.9%)...
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    designation: Mars II) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Phobos. Deimos has a mean radius of 6.2 km (3.9 mi)...
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    refers to two moons of Mars. Voltaire was presumably influenced by Swift. In recognition of these 'predictions', two craters on Deimos are named Swift...
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    Phobos (/ˈfoʊbəs/; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons...
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    meteorite impact craters but are otherwise quite varied. Olympus Mons formed during this period, with lava flows elsewhere on Mars. Named after Amazonis...
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  • Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System. Craters on Venus (alphabetically) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y...
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  • list of successful and unsuccessful Mars landers. As of 2022, 21 lander missions and 8 sub-landers (Rovers and Penetrators) attempted to land on Mars...
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  • Thumbnail for Geology of Mars
    central peaks of many large craters on Mars have pit craters at their summits. Central pit craters are rare on the Moon but are very common on Mars and the...
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    exposed at the surface across several locations on Mars. In the mid-latitudes, it is exposed by impact craters, steep scarps and gullies. Additionally, water...
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    from Mars showed a cratered desert with no signs of water. However, over the decades, as more parts of the planet were imaged with better cameras on more...
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    smaller mass. The average gravitational acceleration on Mars is 3.72076 m/s2 (about 38% of the gravity of Earth) and it varies. In general, topography-controlled...
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  • List of extraterrestrial volcanoes List of highest mountains on Earth List of Solar System extremes List of largest craters in the Solar System List of...
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    fiction § Life on Mars Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian geyser Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on Mars Scientific information...
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  • Mars may contain ores that would be very useful to potential colonists. The abundance of volcanic features together with widespread cratering are strong...
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  • Wisconsin Hope, U.S. Virgin Islands, a settlement Hope Crater, Mars; see List of craters on Mars: HN Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica Hope Harbour...
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    Mars year is almost twice as long as an Earth year. The average length of a Martian sidereal day is 24 h 37 m 22.663 s (88,642.663 seconds based on SI...
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    Olympus Mons (category Mountains on Mars)
    Olympus) is a large shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) high as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA): about...
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    cratered surfaces are old, and sparsely cratered surfaces are young. Old surfaces have many big craters, and young surfaces have mostly small craters...
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    The atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95%), molecular nitrogen (2.85%), and argon...
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    and Brian M. Hynek. "Distant secondary craters from Lyot crater, Mars, and implications for surface ages of planetary bodies." Geophysical Research Letters...
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  • Thumbnail for Climate of Mars
    water on Mars. The morphology of some crater impacts on Mars indicate that the ground was wet at the time of impact. Geomorphic observations of both landscape...
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    scarred by countless impact craters. The largest of these is the Hellas impact basin. See list of craters on Mars. Mars has two permanent polar ice caps...
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    appears to have many more large craters than either Vesta or Ceres, with craters larger than 40 km covering at least 9% of its surface. Pallas's shape departs...
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    Colonization or settlement of Mars is the theoretical migration of humans to Mars and the establishment of long-term human presence on the planet. The prospect...
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    successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The overall objectives include investigating Mars' habitability, studying its...
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  • Thumbnail for List of missions to Mars
    This is a list of spacecraft missions (including unsuccessful ones) to the planet Mars, such as orbiters, landers, and rovers. Mission Type Legend   Mission...
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