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For a dry, cold and dusty planet, Mars looks awfully wet in some spots. Mud volcanoes spotted by an international planetary science team look like the latest.
In the journal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the team led by Monica Pondrellia of Italy's Universitą d'Annunzio in Pescara, reports the discovery of about 250 mounds within the Red Planet's Firsoff Crater that appear to be mud volcanoes.
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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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