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Red Planet ‘hiking maps’ produced

by Pat Coate | February 12, 2007

Paris, France - Scientists using data from a European probe orbiting Mars have made new topographic maps of the Red Planet.

The "hiker's maps" provide detailed height contours and names of geological features on the Martian surface.

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