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Ares Vallis was the landing site of NASA's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, which studied a region of the valley near the border with Chryse in 1997. Ares Vallis is in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars. It has been argued that Uzboi , Ladon , Margaritifer and Ares valles, although now separated by large craters, once comprised a single outflow ...
Many of the landscapes which the South West Coast Path crosses have special status, either as a national park or one of the heritage coasts. The path passes through two World Heritage Sites : the Dorset and East Devon Coast, known as the Jurassic Coast , was designated in 2001, [ 5 ] and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape in 2007.
The maps below were produced by the Mars Global Surveyor ' s Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter; redder colors indicate higher elevations.The maps of the equatorial quadrangles use a Mercator projection, while those of the mid-latitude quadrangles use a Lambert conformal conic projection, and the maps of the polar quadrangles use a polar stereographic projection.
Phobos orbits so fast (with a period of just under one third of a sol) that it rises in the west and sets in the east, and does so twice per sol; Deimos on the other hand rises in the east and sets in the west, but orbits only a few hours slower than a Martian sol, so it spends about two and a half sols above the horizon at a time.
Santa Maria is an impact crater on Mars, located at 2.172°S, 5.445°W within the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region. This geological feature was first visited by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It sits north west of the much larger Endeavour crater. The crater ...
Marte Vallis is a valley in the Amazonis quadrangle of Mars, located at 15 North and 176.5 West. It is 185 km long and was named for the Spanish word for "Mars". [ 2 ] It has been identified as an outflow channel , carved in the geological past by catastrophic release of water from aquifers beneath the Martian surface. [ 3 ]
Mawrth Vallis was at one point considered as a landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, which ultimately landed at Gale Crater. [8] Clay minerals easily preserve microscopic life on Earth, so perhaps traces of ancient life may be found at Mawrth. [9] It was considered a potential landing site for the Mars 2020 rover, but did not make the ...
The Columbia Hills, as seen from the landing site of the Spirit rover. Husband Hill is the tallest of the peaks. Husband Hill is the tallest of the peaks. Husband Hill is one of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater , Mars , which are close to the landing site of NASA 's Spirit rover .