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- ...that the Marsnik spacecraft (pictured) was the first attempt to reach Mars?
- ...that the Voyager program, a cancelled series of Mars missions, had their name used in the Voyager program spacecraft to the gas giants?
- ...that 5261 Eureka is a Martian Trojan asteroid?
- ...that the Deep Space 2 probes were named Scott and Amundsen after the two polar explorers, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen?
- ...that the Michigan Mars Rover Team has created a prototype called Olympus (pictured) of a pressurized Mars rover?
- ...that Mangala is the name for Mars in Jyotish astrology?
- ...that Martian spherules are also known as blueberries?
- ...that following the discovery of the Martian moons, Henry Madan named the moons?
- ...that Yogi Rock (pictured) is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
- ...that the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
- ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?
- ...that Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to global warming?
- ...that planning for the HiRISE camera (pictured) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began in the 1980s?
- ...that astronomy on Mars is possible?
- ...that the Nakhla meteorite was said to have vaporized a dog?
- ...that every year, a spiral dust cloud appears for a short time over Arsia Mons?
- ...that Planum Australe (pictured) was to be explored by the failed Mars Polar Lander?
- ...that Malin Space Science Systems operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor?
- ...that CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and is used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
- ...that the Hubble Space Telescope captured a cyclonic storm in Planum Boreum?
- ...that ALH84001, the Martian meteorite that was said to have contained evidence for life on Mars, likely orginates from Eos Chasma?
- ...that Syrtis Major is the first documented surface feature of another planet?
- ...that the first rover sent to Mars was a Prop-M rover that was attached to the failed Mars 2?
- ...that the Mars Society today has supporters from more than fifty countries?
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