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A panorama taken by Opportunity at Endurance crater.
September 2007 [[Image:{{{image}}}|400px|center|Phobos spacecraft]]
The Phobos 2 spacecraft hovers over Mars's moon Phobos.
An artist's concept of Mars Science Laboratory, a NASA mars rover to be launched in 2009.
A Martian sunset seen at Gusev Crater, taken by Spirit.
Sojourner examines Yogi Rock.
The vast canyon system of Valles Marineris is shown in a Viking 1 mosaic.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Victoria crater.
An artist's conception of the process of terraforming Mars.
False colour view of a landslide in Zunil crater.
This image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of Victoria Crater from Cape Verde.
Valles Marineris is a vast canyon system that runs along the Martian equator. At 4,500 km long, 200 km wide and 11 km deep, the Valles Marineris rift system is ten times longer, seven times wider and seven times deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona, making it the largest known crevice in the solar system.
The Face on Mars was one of the most striking and remarkable images taken during the Viking missions to the red planet. Unmistakeably resembling a human face, the image caused many to hypothesise that it was the work of an extraterrestrial civilization. Later images revealed that it was a mundane feature rendered face-like by the angle of the Sun.
An illustration of what Mars might have looked like after a major climate change when Mars entered an ice age between 2.1 million and 400,000 years ago, when Mars's axial tilt is believed to have been much larger than today.
Avalanches on Planum Boreum.
This image shows the north polar layered deposits at top and darker materials at bottom exposed in a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large canyon eroded into the layered deposits. The polar layered deposits appear red because of dust mixed within them, but are ice-rich as indicated by previous observations. The water ice in the layered deposits is probably responsible for the pattern of fractures seen near the top of the scarp. The darker material below the layered deposits may have been deposited as sand dunes, as indicated by the cross-bedding (truncation of curved lines) seen near the middle of the scarp. It appears that brighter, ice-rich layers were deposited between the dark dunes in places.
Stickney crater on Phobos, as imaged by Mars Global Surveyor. The rim is prominent.
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