Portal:Mars/Did you know?/April 2008

...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?

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