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    The Argentea Planum is a plateau on the surface of Mars, located with the planetocentric coordinate system at -63.86 north latitude and 337.89° east longitude...
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  • rules of planetary nomenclature. Plains may be named denoted "planitia" or "planum", depending on height. Planitia (plural: planitiae) is Latin for plain....
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    informal names (such as the Hourglass Sea for what is now Syrtis Major Planum) but there was no overall system. The first astronomer to name Martian albedo...
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    Planum to the south. The region consists of a few plana (plains) including Aonia, Icaria, Parva and most of Bosporos as well as the west of Argentea Planum...
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  • Crater is a large Hesperian- or Amazonian-age impact crater in Promethei Planum near the south pole of Mars, within the Mare Australe quadrangle, due south...
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    geographic positions. At that time ice was deposited in a region called Dorsa Argentea Formation. Also, the Martian dichotomy was aligned along the equator. A...
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    surface of Mars. The existence of ice in the Martian northern (Planum Boreum) and southern (Planum Australe) polar caps has been known since the time of Mariner...
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    quadrangle's name derives from an older name for a feature that is now called Planum Australe, a large plain surrounding the polar cap. The Mars polar lander...
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    Bernardini, F.; Safaeinili, A.; Seu, R. (2009). "Subsurface structure of Planum Boreum from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar soundings". Icarus...
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    allophylla = Lepidolaena reticulata (Hook.f. & Taylor) Trevis. J. argentea = Zoopsis argentea (Hook. f. & Taylor) Spruce J. aterrima = Frullania aterrima (Hook...
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