Elon Musk wants to send humans to Mars to establish ... in dark blue on the map. And we’re pretty familiar with some of these locations. For example, Acidalia Planitia is just north of where ...

The Mars Global Surveyor dataset included measurements during a dust storm that originated in the southerly Hellas Planitia impact basin and swathed the whole planet one southern spring.

Mark Watney is part of a 6-member team that lands in a large northern basin on Mars, called Acidalia Planitia ... shown in the map below: Mawrth Vallis is one of the oldest valleys on Mars ...

A team of scientists, led by Andrea Butturini from the University of Barcelona, has proposed that Acidalia Planitia, a vast ancient plain on Mars ... subsurface ice maps, thorium concentrations ...