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Freedom 7 crater
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Mars Tribute Marks Memories of Shepard's Flight Expand (216kb, 1024 x 768) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The team exploring Mars via NASA's Opportunity rover for the past seven years has informally named a Martian crater for the Mercury spacecraft that astronaut Alan Shepard christened Freedom 7. O...
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Dogana Crater
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Dogana for a 41.2-km-wide Martian crater located at 10.0°S, 306.35°E. The feature was named in honour of a town in the Republic of San Marino.Google Earth file Dogana Crater.kmz (1kb, kmz)
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Ceraunius Tholus
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Neighbouring volcanoes on Mars ESA's Mars Express has returned images of mist-capped volcanoes located in the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Long after volcanic activity ceased, the area was transformed by meteor impacts that deposited ejected material over the lower flanks of the volc...
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Crater Firsoff
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Firsoff for a 90-km-wide Martian crater located at 2.66°N, 9.42°W. The feature was named in honour of the English astronomer Valdemar Axel Firsoff (1910-1981).
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Firsoff crater Mud volcanoes
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Title: Mud volcanoes in the geologic record of Mars: The case of Firsoff crater Authors: M. Pondrelli, A.P. Rossi, G.G. Ori, S. van Gasselt, D. Praeg, S. Ceramicola We report the detection of mound-like landforms interpreted as mud volcanoes within Firsoff crater, in the Arabia Terra region of Mar...
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Martian Crater
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The scars of impacts on Mars Elongated crater on Mars ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of projectiles striking the planet at a shallow angle. The...
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Noord and Resen Craters
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the names Noord and Resen for two Martian craters. Noord is a 7.8-km-wide crater located at -19.42°N, -11.34°W. The feature was named in honour of a town in Aruba. Resen is a 7.4-km-wide crater located at 28.16°N, 251.06°W. The feature was na...
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Canala crater
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Canala for a 12-km-wide Martian crater located at 24.35°N, 80.0°W. The feature was named in honour of a town in New Caledonia..
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Schiaparelli crater
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Wind and water have shaped Schiaparelli on Mars The small crater embedded in the north-western rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image acquired by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- u...
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Tharsis Rise
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Title: Is Tharsis Rise, Mars, a spreading volcano? Authors: Andrea Borgia A theoretical similarity derived for spreading volcanoes remains valid for over three orders of magnitude in size, from small slumping volcanoes to large ocean plates. This similarity means that Mount Etna, Sicily, can b...
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Phoenicis Lacus
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Light and dark in the Phoenix Lake Phoenicis Lacus on Mars They say you can't judge a book by its cover but, with planets, first impressions do count. New images show where complex fault lines in Mars' Phoenicis Lacus region have resulted in terrain with a distinctly contrasting appearance. Ninetee...
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Orcus Patera
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Mars's mysterious elongated crater Orcus Patera on Mars Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery. Often overlooked, this well...
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