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Elizabeth Howell

8 must-see destinations for your (future) Mars vacation

An illustration of a person in a spacesuit crouching in the rocks in a Martian landscape.

Mars is a planet of vast contrasts — huge volcanoes, deep canyons, and craters that may or may not host running water. It will be an amazing location for future tourists to explore, once we put the first Red Planet colonies into motion. The landing sites for these future missions will likely need to be flat plains for safety and practical reasons, but perhaps they could land within a few days' drive of some more interesting geology. Here are some locations that future Martians could visit.

(Image credit: NASA/MOLA Science Team/ O. de Goursac, Adrian Lark)
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