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Powerful and Geologically Recent Earthquakes on Mars
February 22, 2012 | MSNBC

A study of ruptures in the Martian surface and associated “displaced” boulder suggest that earthquakes as powerful as M7.0 could have occurred in the past few million years.


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Speeds of Sand Dunes on Mars
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