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The search for water on Mars
The search for water on Mars

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This figure is a repeat of Figure 15 with additional annotations. A grey square is drawn around the large circular feature at the top. A pale blue circle is drawn around four circular features. A dark blue triangle is drawn around three areas where there are two overlapping craters.
Figure 16 A labelled version of Figure 15: Ma’adim Vallis region. Note the channel, which is breached by some impact craters, and itself breaches a very large impact crater. The largest crater visible at the top of the image is Gusev Crater, a 166 km diameter crater which was the landing site of the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit.

 4.1 How it all began: a tale of why resolution matters