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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the names Cankuzo and Luqa for two Martian craters.

Cankuzo is a 51.0-km wide crater located at -19.4, 308.01.
The crater was named after a town in Burundi.

Luqa is a 16.5-km wide crater located at -18.22, 228.27.
The crater was named after a town in Malta.

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Mojave Crater
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Enhanced 3D Model of Mars Crater Edge Shows Ups and Downs

A dramatic 3D Mars view based on terrain modelling from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data shows "highs and lows" of Mojave Crater.
The vertical dimension is exaggerated three-fold compared with horizontal dimensions in the synthesised images of a portion of the crater's wall. The resulting images look like the view from a low-altitude aircraft. They reflect one use of digital modelling derived from two observations by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera.
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Listaverk frį Mars (myndasyrpa)

Frį įrinu 2006 hefur Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter geimfar NASA sveimaš umhverfis Mars ķ tęplega 300 km hęš. Um borš ķ geimfarinu er HiRISE, öflugasta myndavél sem send hefur veriš śt ķ sólkerfiš. Myndir HiRISE eru ķ senn stórglęsilegar og stórfuršulegar og lķkjast oft į tķšum fegurstu listaverkum. Hér er aš finna tuttugu ljósmyndir sem HiRISE hefur tekiš sķšustu įrin af yfirborši Mars. Sumar ljósmyndirnar eru svarthvķtar, ašrar vķsvitandi ķ fölskum litum til žess aš draga fram smįatriši sem annars sęjust illa eša alls ekki.
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Kibuye crater
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Kibuye of the 7.4-km wide Martian crater located at 29.13S, 178.29W.
The crater was named after a town in Rwanda.

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Mars featured large lakes of melted ice about 3 billion years ago, according to new research suggesting that the planet reached its present, dry state more recently than previously thought.
Observations by British scientists have indicated that a series of depressions near the Martian equator were formed by water in lakes up to 20km wide.
The lake beds have been dated to 3 billion years ago, showing that the surface of Mars was still wet during a period called the Hesperian Epoch.
While it is well-established that Mars was warm and wet during its early history, previous research has indicated that it lost its atmosphere and became cold and dry between 4 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.
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Mars south polar region
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Title: An evidence for solar activity influence on the meteorological processes in the south polar region of Mars during the great opposition in AD 1924
Authors: Boris Komitov

A time series of the Martian south ice polar cap mean diameter for the period July-December 1924 is investigated. The data are based on the high quality pictures, which are obtained by visual observations of 60 cm telescope in Hamburg Observatory during the great opposition of Mars in AD 1924. After removing of the seasonal trend (caused by the springtime regression of the cap) quasi 36 and 80-82 days cycles in residuals has been obtained. The sunspot activity spectra for the corresponding period is almost the same one. The local maximums of polar cap area residuals occurred about 10 days after the corresponding minimums of sunspot activity. The so obtained results are briefly discussed.

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Matara for a 49.4-km wide martian crater located at 49.62S, 325.48W.
The crater was named after a town in Sri Lanka.

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for six Martian craters.

Horowitz, is a 65.7-km wide crater located at latitude -32.04, longitude 219.36, is named after the biologist Norman Horowitz.   
Kamnik, is a 10.2-km wide crater located at latitude -37.22, longitude 161.91, is named after a town in Slovenia.   
Kandi, is a 8.5-km wide crater located at latitude -32.73, longitude 238.0, is named after a town in Benin.
Pursat, is a 18.3-km wide crater located at latitude -37.35, longitude 229.34, is named after a town in Cambodia.
Roseau, is a 6.3-km wide crater located at latitude -41.68, longitude 209.58, is named after a town in Dominica.
Yaren, is a 9.6-km wide crater located at latitude -43.91, longitude 137.57, is named after a town in Nauru.

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Once upon a time - roughly four billion years ago - Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the planet and kept it warm. Living microbes might have even arisen, some scientists believe, starting Mars down the path toward becoming a second life-filled planet next door to our own.
But that's not how things turned out.
Mars today is bitter cold and bone dry. The rivers and seas are long gone. Its atmosphere is thin and wispy, and if Martian microbes still exist, they're probably eking out a meager existence somewhere beneath the dusty Martian soil.
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Crater Leighton
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the name Leighton for a 69.0 km wide crater on Mars.
The crater is located at Latitude 3.06N, Longitude 302.32W; and named after the physicist Robert B. Leighton.

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