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Your views of Mars

By Daniel Smith on Apr 14, 10 12:02 PM

The most powerful camera aboard a NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public.

One of them is this spectacular view of icy layers and climate fluctuations near the Martian North Pole.

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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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