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Appendix A Martian Features Mentioned in Text
Pages 109-112

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... to the southeast of Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's landing site dedicated to the seven astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia. The rocks of the hills are highly variable both in their origin and in their degree of alteration, ranging from unaltered, olivine-rich rocks that retain all their primary volcanic minerals to sulfate-rich, hydrated mineral-rich rocks with almost no primary minerals remaining.
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... Meridiani PlanumAn almost level plain (0°N, 355°E) on which the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed in 2004.
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