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Mars’s mysterious elongated crater
 
27 August 2010   Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars’s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery.
Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
 
28 June 2010   When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.
Wet era on early Mars was global
 
25 June 2010   Conditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern highlands, but also beneath the northern plains.
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2 June 2010   Astronaut's eye view: Mars Express orbiting the Red Planet
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4 March 2010   Phobos flyby success
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