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Martian 'Happy Face' Crater

Posted by timothy on from the cuteness-in-space dept.

Astroturtle writes "The two pictures shown here are taken from the same daily global image mosaic (the only difference is that each was processed slightly differently). The pictures show Galle Crater, informally known as 'Happy Face,' as it appeared in early southern winter."

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  1. Old News... by dnahelix · · Score: 2, Informative

    This has been known about for quite some time! Astronomy Picture of the Day from more than 3 years ago featured this crater. Slashdot Science has been quite sucky lately!

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  2. Re:Old News... Old Crater by EvilBastard · · Score: 2, Informative

    'Happy Face' crater of Mars
    NASA/JPL/MSSS RELEASE
    Posted: May 17, 2003

    It's a new picture of an old crater. The old one was offset at an angle, this one is finally "Face On" so to speak.

  3. Re:Larger image anyone? by Midajo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is the largest one I could Google. Somewhat flawed, unfortunately.