Portal:Mars/Did you know?/April 2008
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- ...that Yogi Rock (pictured) is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
- ...that 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"?
- ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?
- ...that Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to global warming?

