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Watching this Video Feels Like Landing on Mars at Breakneck Speed

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This video takes you on a virtual descent from orbit into the so-called Distributary Fan on Mars, located just northeast of Holden Crater. Using imagery from the Mars Orbiter and the Mars Global Surveyor, this visualization shows where liquid water probably flowed across the Martian surface in the past.

[Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and NASA/JPL/MSSS ]

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