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Figure 5.4 Mars landing sites: (a) impact-gardened basaltic plain with aeolian drifts, Chryse Planita ( Viking 1 panorama); (b)
deflated ejecta blanket from Mie crater, Utopia Planita ( Viking 2 panorama); (c) outwash deposit of Ares Vallis with possible boulder
imbrication and potentially water scoured hills ( Pathfinder panorama); (d) bedrock outcrops, Columbia Hills, Gusev Crater ( Spirit
image); (e) fractured evaporitic bedrock overlain by dunes of dark basaltic sand, Erebus Crater, Meridiani Planum ( Opportunity
image); (f) polygonal terrain of Vasitas Borealis ( Phoenix image). All photos NASA.
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