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MRO Finds Happy Face on Mars!


cro-man

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Who said Martians are evil? Maybe they are trying to tell us something... I mean, just look at the evidence: happy face on Mars in 1999, happy face on Mars in 2006, Big Foot only a few days ago and, last but no least, happy face on Mars 2008. This particular image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera on the 28th of January, 2008, and is showing a 3-kilometer crater located in the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, resembling a 'happy face'.

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The Argyre basin is located 45.1 degrees South and 55.0 degrees West on the surface of Mars. Ever since

October 2006, the CTX device equipping the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taken pictures of the surface of Mars with a six-meter resolution, covering about 20 percent of the whole area of the planet. Each month, the MRO maps an additional 1 percent of the surface.

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