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The most famous places on Mars

The list would be very very long if we started to name all the craters, since there are hundreds of thousands of them on the Martian planet. A small percentage have their own name.

Mount Olympus

It is the largest known volcano in the solar system. It is located in the western hemisphere of the planet Mars. Its caldera (about 3 km deep) is 85 kilometers in diameter and has several large craters. Volcanic areas occupy 10% of the surface of Mars, hence we see so many and some craters show signs of recent activity.

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Valles Marineris

It forms a gigantic canyon system that runs along the equator of the planet Mars just east of the Tharsis region. It is 4,500 km long, 200 km wide and 11 km deep . In comparison, it is 10 times longer and 7 times wider and deeper than the Grand Canyon of Arizona (USA).

Gale Crater

This crater, near the edges of the Elysium Planitia lowlands, is 154 km in diameter and is believed to be 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old. On August 6, 2012 an all-terrain vehicle, equipped with a robotic laboratory, successfully landed in Gale crater.

As a curiosity, in alphabetical order, the first crater on the list would be Aban , eponymous for Aban, Russia; and the last, would be Zutphen , eponymous of Zutphen, Netherlands.

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