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The Martian, Part 5: Schiaparelli Crater Floor
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All this week, the THEMIS Image of the Day has been following on the real Mars the path taken by fictional astronaut Mark Watney, stranded on the Red Planet in the book and movie, The Martian. Generally smooth and rolling terrain covers most of this portion of Schiaparelli Crater's floor. Because the impact that made Schiaparelli occurred billions of years ago, nature has had ample time to leave lava and sediments in the crater and to erode them.
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Credit lineThe Martian, Part 5: Schiaparelli Crater Floor. NASA/JPL, 2015-10-16. Public domain. ID: PIA19800.
