• The common surface features of Mars include dark slope streaks, dust devil tracks, sand dunes, Medusae Fossae Formation, fretted terrain, layers, gullies...
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    System portal Spaceflight portal List of craters on Mars List of rocks on Mars "Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home". mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved March 27,...
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    The surface of Mars has been divided into thirty cartographic quadrangles by the United States Geological Survey. Each quadrangle is a region covering...
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    This is a list of all named mountains on Mars. Most Martian mountains have a name including one of the following astrogeological terms: Mons — large, isolated...
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    The following table is a partial list of artificial objects on the surface of Mars, consisting of spacecraft which were launched from Earth. Although most...
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  • Mars List of areas of chaos terrain on Mars List of surface features of Mars seen by the Spirit rover List of surface features of Mars seen by the Opportunity...
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    locations on Mars. In the mid-latitudes, it is exposed by impact craters, steep scarps and gullies. Additionally, water ice is also visible at the surface at...
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  • life has been found on Mars. Cumulative evidence suggests that during the ancient Noachian time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water...
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    The surface of Venus is dominated by geologic features that include volcanoes, large impact craters, and aeolian erosion and sedimentation landforms. Venus...
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    of Mars. Scientists have known since the Mariner 9 mission in 1972 that volcanic features cover large portions of the Martian surface. These features...
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    albedo features of Mars are the light and dark features that can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth-based telescope. Before the age of space probes...
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    war. Mars has an atmosphere that is unbreathable and thin, with surface temperatures fluctuating between −70 and 0 °C (−94 and 32 °F). While Mars has frozen...
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    Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red...
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    The climate of Mars has been a topic of scientific curiosity for centuries, in part because it is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be easily...
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  • List of geological features on Mercury is an itemization of mountains, valleys, craters and other landform features of the planet Mercury. Different types...
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    feature on the maps of Mars made by either Giovanni Schiaparelli or Eugène Michel Antoniadi and are listed at Classical albedo features on Mars. Wikimedia...
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    The surface color of the planet Mars appears reddish from a distance because of rusty atmospheric dust. From close up, it looks more of a butterscotch...
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    atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km (22 mi) above the Earth's surface and is ≈0.020 kg/m3. The atmosphere of Mars has been losing...
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    sort of jet or geyser-like activity on Mars. Their characteristics, and the process of their formation, are still a matter of debate. These features are...
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    A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, uncrewed spacecraft, ten have had successful...
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    Cydonia (/sɪˈdoʊniə/, /saɪˈdoʊniə/) is a region on the planet Mars that has attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally referred...
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  • smoother regions of differing albedo. List of plains on Mars List of areas of chaos terrain on Mars Staff (3 April 2000). "Mars features database". MIT...
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    The history of Mars observation is about the recorded history of observation of the planet Mars. Some of the early records of Mars' observation date back...
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    The Mars monolith is a rectangular object (possibly a boulder) discovered on the surface of Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from...
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    The terraforming of Mars or the terraformation of Mars is a hypothetical procedure that would consist of a planetary engineering project or concurrent...
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    of Mars. Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet. Currently, only robotic landers and rovers have been on Mars...
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    The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history...
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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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    atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23,...
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  • evidence of water on Mars, dating back to the Mariner 9 mission, which arrived at Mars in 1971. This article provides a mission by mission breakdown of the...
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