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      <title>Salt deposits found in Martian highlands</title>
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      <title>Martian polar riddle solved</title>
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      <title>THEMIS Poster Shop Now Open</title>
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      <description>The THEMIS Team proudly announces the creation of the THEMIS Poster Shop, selling high-resolution posters of THEMIS images.</description>
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      <title>Google Mars Launches!</title>
      <link>http://www.mars.asu.edu/google/</link>
      <description>Google Mars lets you explore some of the most detailed maps of Mars ever made, using your browser.</description>
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      <title>THEMIS Global Daytime IR Mosaic</title>
      <link>http://themis.asu.edu/globalmosaic</link>
      <description>The best global image of all Mars was made by stitching together more than 17,000 Mars photos, each showing details as small as 230 meters (750 feet) wide.</description>
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      <title>THOR Mission Seeks Underground Water</title>
      <link>http://www.mars.asu.edu/thor/</link>
      <description>A mission named THOR (Tracing Habitability, Organics, and Resources) proposes to seek underground water on Mars.</description>
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      <title>Choosing Opportunity's Landing Site</title>
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      <description>As the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reaches one Mars year on the surface, we review how TES and THEMIS helped find its new home on Meridiani Planum.</description>
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      <title>ASU's Mars Window Launches In China</title>
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      <description>Arizona State University's informative Mars website now has a Chinese-language version.  The new site translates features posted by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility on themis.asu.edu.</description>
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