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Martian Valentine’s Day

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a heart-shaped hill surrounded by cracked terrain within a depression in far northwestern Arabia Terra, near the Cydonia region of Mars.
PIA07355
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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14 February 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a heart-shaped hill surrounded by cracked terrain within a depression in far northwestern Arabia Terra, near the Cydonia region of Mars. Happy St. Valentine's Day from the MGS MOC team!

Location near: 39.1°N, 358.1°W
Image width: ~3.0 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Spring