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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander: Exploring the arctic plains of Mars

NASA’s latest Mars surface pictures

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This black and white image shows a region of polygonal cracking in the Martian ground. This cracking occurs in a similar fashion in the icy ground of the Arctic regions of Earth.