Mars

Mars

Of, or relating to the study of, planet Mars.

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Meridiani Planum

Astronomy; Mars

Meridiani Planum is the name of a plain on Mars. One of the Mars Exploration Rovers, named Opportunity, landed there. Meridiani Planum is very flat. "Planum" means "plain". ...

Pinnacle Island

Astronomy; Mars

A strange "jelly doughnut" like rock on Mars that was spotted by the Opportunity rover on Jan. 8, 2014 that was not previously there four days earlier. The unexpected appearance of the ...

Whitewater Lake is an area of bright local outcrops along an eroded segment of a vast crater named Endeavour that spans some 22 kilometers (14 miles) in diameter. The outcrops contain rocks that are ...

Payson

Astronomy; Mars

Located on the western edge of the Erebus Crater on Mars, Payson is the outcrop created by a crater-forming impact event that exposed layered rocks in the crater wall, measuring about 1 meters (3.3 ...

Marquette Island

Astronomy; Mars

Marquette Island is a rock located in the barren plain between Victoria Crater and Endeavour Crater on Mars that was initially spotted by the Opportunity rover on November 5, 2009. First called "Sore ...

Heat Shield Rock

Astronomy; Mars

Heat Shield Rock is a meteorite located near the debris of Opportunity's heat shield in Meridiani Planum, a cratered flatland on Mars where the Opportunity rover first landed in 2004. This ...

Maven

Astronomy; Mars

Maven — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission — is a spacecraft launched by NASA in November 2013 to orbit the Mars. It's the U.S. 10th mission sent to orbit the red planet and ...