most conspicuous feature of Mars is a sharp contrast, known as the Martian dichotomy, between the Southern and the Northern hemispheres. The two hemispheres'...
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Moons of Mars (redirect from Martian moons)
perhaps from a giant impact event suggested to have created the Martian dichotomy and the Borealis Basin. The second suggests that they are captured...
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Areography (redirect from Martian meridian)
Lakes on Mars Life on Mars Magnetic field of Mars Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on Mars...
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billion years ago. The distribution of Martian crustal magnetism is similar to the Martian dichotomy. Whereas the Martian northern lowlands are largely unmagnetized...
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Mars (section Martian "canals")
in southern highlands – this terrain observation is known as the Martian dichotomy. Mars hosts many enormous extinct volcanoes (the tallest is Olympus...
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Geology of Mars (redirect from Martian geology)
Magnetic field of Mars Mars Geyser Hopper Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian geyser Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on...
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Mars ocean theory (redirect from Martian ocean)
a significantly lower elevation than the rest of the planet (the Martian dichotomy), and is unusually flat. These observations led a number of researchers...
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Life on Mars (redirect from Martian life)
on Earth Mars in fiction § Life on Mars Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian geyser Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on...
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List of craters on Mars: A–G (redirect from Airy (Martian crater))
here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z). Large Martian craters (greater than 60 kilometers...
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List of craters on Mars: H–N (redirect from Nicholson (Martian crater))
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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List of craters on Mars: O–Z (redirect from Tycho Brahe (Martian crater))
here contains only named Martian craters starting with the letter O – Z (see also lists for A – G and H – N). Large Martian craters (greater than 60 kilometers...
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making it one of the oldest geological features on Mars after the Martian dichotomy. The impactor was likely around 400–700 kilometres (250–430 mi) in...
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Andrews-Hanna; et al. (2008). "The Borealis basin and the origin of the Martian crustal dichotomy". Nature. 453 (7199): 1212–1215. Bibcode:2008Natur.453.1212A....
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Climate of Mars (redirect from Martian global warming)
state." It found "a strong dichotomy" between the northern and southern hemispheres, a "very asymmetric paradigm for the Martian annual cycle: a northern...
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deposited in a region called Dorsa Argentea Formation. Also, the Martian dichotomy was aligned along the equator. A band of rivers formed at around 25...
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Mensae is just to the east of Protonilus Mensae and both lie along the Martian dichotomy boundary. Its name was adapted by the IAU in 1973. It was named after...
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between Deuteronilus Mensae and Nilosyrtis Mensae; all lie along the Martian dichotomy boundary. Its name was adapted by the IAU in 1973. Map showing the...
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Tectonics of Mars (redirect from Martian tectonics)
hemispheric dichotomy is that of primary crustal fractionation. This process would have been associated with the formation of the Martian core, which...
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Mars in fiction (redirect from Martian)
Worlds, H. G. Wells's novel about an alien invasion of Earth by sinister Martians, was published in 1897 and went on to have a major influence on the science...
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northern hemisphere. Between these two zones is a region called the Martian dichotomy and parts of it contain fretted terrain. This terrain contains a complicated...
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Water on Mars (redirect from Martian water)
atmosphere. What was thought to be low-volume liquid brines in shallow Martian soil, also called recurrent slope lineae, may be grains of flowing sand...
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Mars Lineated valley fill – Martian geologic feature Lobate debris apron – Geological features on Mars Martian dichotomy – Geomorphological feature of...
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Timekeeping on Mars (redirect from Martian Standard Time)
the northward equinox, and increasingly there is use of numbering the Martian years beginning at the equinox that occurred April 11, 1955. Mars has an...
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processes. Plate tectonics has been suggested as a hypothesis for the Martian dichotomy, and in 2012 geologist An Yin put forward evidence for active plate...
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Circulation Climate of Mars Martian surface Geography of Mars Outflow channels Geology of Mars Martian dichotomy Martian polar ice caps Solar eclipses...
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Mars sol (redirect from Martian day)
Earth day. It is approximately 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds long. A Martian year is approximately 668.6 sols, equivalent to approximately 687 Earth...
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Gya): Major collision with a pluto-sized planetoid establishes the Martian dichotomy on Mars – formation of North Polar Basin of Mars 9.3 billion years...
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Colonization of Mars (redirect from Martian colonization)
Mars is the proposed process of establishing and maintaining control of Martian land for exploitation and the possible settlement of Mars. Most colonization...
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Atmosphere of Mars (redirect from Martian atmosphere)
currently thin Martian atmosphere prohibits the existence of liquid water on the surface of Mars, but many studies suggest that the Martian atmosphere was...
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Caroline L. (2018-05-01). "Chronology of martian breccia NWA 7034 and the formation of the martian crustal dichotomy". Science Advances. 4 (5): eaap8306....
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