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• Melting snow likely created fan deposits inside Martian craters, geologists say

  In astrophysics, geology / 28 June 2012 / 2 comments

  

  Accumulations of drifting snow are the most plausible explanation for the presence of a number of puzzling alluvial fan deposits found inside large impact craters on Mars

   

• New mapping of Mars shows Medusae Fossae Formation older than once thought

  In astrophysics, geology / 25 May 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Recent geologic mapping of the Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars—an intensely eroded deposit near the northern edge of the cratered highlands—has revealed a wider distribution of its western component than was previously recognized.