Solar system's biggest impact scar discovered
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 17:14
in Astronomy & Space
A new analysis of Mars by researchers at MIT and NASA has solved one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the solar system -- why the planet Mars has two completely different kinds of terrain, in its northern and southern hemispheres.
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