Star of Fire

Their maps had been prepared with the aid of NASA observers at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The first spacefarers to Mars had even better digital maps, thanks to the MOLA maps generated by the laser altimeter on the Mars Global Surveyor, which were being enhanced by the updates from the Mars Reconnaissance Observer telescope. ................
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