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the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars?
troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured)?
a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars?
Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to regional climate change?
NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?
CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?

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