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Crater Lucaya
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Lucaya for a 34.21-km-wide Martian crater located at -11.55°, 51.91°. The feature was named in honour of a town in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
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McLaughlin Crater
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Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. The new information comes from researchers analysing spectrometer data f...
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Reull Vallis
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Reull Vallis: a river ran through it ESA's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in these images, is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant mar...
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Charitum Montes
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Charitum Montes: a cratered winter wonderland The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express imaged the Charitum Montes region of the Red Planet on 18 June, near to Gale crater and the Argyre basin featured in our October and November image releases. The brighter features, giving the ima...
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Martian Soil
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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyses First Martian Soil Samples NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyse Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulphur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingre...
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Six features on Mars
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for six features on Mars. Camichel for a 65.26-km-wide Martian crater located at 2.26°, 308.39°. The feature was named in honour of the French astronomer Henri Camichel (1907-2003). Dukhan for a 34.04-km-wide Mart...
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Nereidum Montes
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Nereidum Montes helps unlock Mars' glacial past On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereidum Montes, some 380 km northeast of Hooke crater. The stunning rugged terrain of Nereidum...
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Valles Marineris
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Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971-72 which discovered it) is a system that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep, the Valles Marineris rift system is the largest know...
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Hooke Crater region
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Ice-coated beauty in Mars' Silver Island Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 10743 on 8 June 2012 by ESA's Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of Hooke Crater region in Argyre...
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Peace Vallis
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a valley on the rim of Gale crater. Peace Vallis for a 35.24-km-diameter Martian valley located at -4.21°S, 137.23°E. The feature was named after a river in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Google earth file: Peace Valli...
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Candor Colles
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a feature on Mars. Candor Colles for a 37.38-km-wide Martian feature located at -6.63°S, 284.43°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature.
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Ceti Labes
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a feature on Mars. Ceti Labes for a 11.05-km-diameter Martian feature located at -6.78°S, 284.27°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature.
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Yellowknife Crater
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Yellowknife for a 0.12-km-wide Martian crater located at 4.58°S, 137.44°E. The feature was named in honour of a town the in Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Hadley Crater
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Hadley Crater provides deep insight into martian geology Earlier this year, ESA's Mars Express spacecraft observed the 120 km wide Hadley Crater, providing a tantalising insight into the martian crust. The images show multiple subsequent impacts within the main crater wall, reaching depths of...
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Three New Martian Features
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for two craters and a serpens on Mars. Aeolis Serpens for a 538.55-km-long Martian feature located at -1.38°S, 149.57°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature. Cayon for a 27.31-km-wide Martian...
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