The classical albedo features of Mars are the light and dark features that can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth-based telescope. Before the...

areas. Historically, albedo features were the first (and usually only) features to be seen and named on Mars and Mercury. Early classical maps (such as those...

Antoniadi and are listed at Classical albedo features on Mars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chaotic terrains on Mars. This list was adapted from...

complex of intersecting valleys. As with other albedo features on Mars, the name Cydonia was drawn from classical antiquity, in this case from Kydonia (Ancient...

A synonym for the moth genus Hecatera Ætheria, one of the classical albedo features on Mars Aetheria: first abbess of Notre-Dame de Soissons (658) This...

range of latitudes and longitudes on the Martian surface. The quadrangles are named after classical albedo features, and they are numbered from one to...

they did not exist. Classical albedo features on Mars – Early attempts at describing the surface of Mars Face on Mars – Area of MarsPages displaying short...

southern highlands of Mars Syrtis Minor, another of the classical albedo features on Mars Syrtis Hill, a prominent snow-free hill on Alexander Island, Antarctica...

of Mars observation Martian canals List of Martian canals Classical albedo features on Mars Timeline of discoveries of water on Mars Lakes on Mars Exploration...

This is a list of plains on Mars. Such features are named after the nearest classical albedo feature in compliance with the International Astronomical...

the nickname "the Red Planet". Mars is among the brightest objects in Earth's sky, and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject...

have given names to the surface features they have discerned, especially on the Moon and Mars. To found an authority on planetary nomenclature, the International...

catenae on Mars. In planetary geology, a catena is a chain of similarly sized craters. On Mars, they are named after nearby classical albedo features as prescribed...

Mars may contain ores that would be very useful to potential colonists. The abundance of volcanic features together with widespread cratering are strong...

regions of differing albedo. List of plains on Mars List of areas of chaos terrain on Mars Staff (3 April 2000). "Mars features database". MIT. Retrieved...

Solar System, with an albedo of 0.071. Surface temperatures range from about −4 °C (25 °F) on the sunlit side to −112 °C (−170 °F) on the shadowed side....

Fernando del Paso Strait of Palinurus and Bay of Palinurus, classical albedo features on Mars Conus ammiralis var. palinurus, a sea snail All pages with...

Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi; 72,000 ft) high as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), about...

Robert M. (2007). "Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars" (PDF). Nature. 446 (7136): 646–649. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..646F...

geologic units on Mars. No topography is visible on Mars from Earth. The bright areas and dark markings seen through a telescope are albedo features. The bright...

Sol (borrowed from the Latin word for sun) is a solar day on Mars; that is, a Mars-day. A sol is the apparent interval between two successive returns of...

points Mars made its closest approaches to the Earth. Better telescopes developed early in the 19th century allowed permanent Martian albedo features to be...

Almost all water on Mars today exists as polar permafrost ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere. What was thought...

focused on what is called physical geography on Earth; that is the distribution of physical features across Mars and their cartographic representations. In...

Robert M. (2007). "Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars" (PDF). Nature. 446 (7136): 646–649. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..646F...

speculation that the darker albedo features were water and the brighter ones were land, whence followed speculation on whether Mars may be inhabited by some...

Boreum, the Martian North Pole. It is named after one of the classical albedo features on Mars. Its name was officially approved by IAU in 1988. It extends...

Sinus Meridiani (Latin Sinus meridiani, "Meridian Bay") is an albedo feature on Mars stretching east-west just south of the planet's equator. It was named...

areas and dark markings on pre-spaceflight-era maps of Mars are all albedo features. (See Classical albedo features on Mars.) They have little relation...

proposed for the planet Mars. The most commonly seen in the scientific literature denotes the time of year as the number of degrees on its orbit from the northward...