Mars may have been cold and dry for billions of years, but it’s still an active place. A comparison of images taken just a few years apart by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft reveals freshly carved gullies and recent landslides. It also shows that a recently found, 20-meter-wide crater is only about 25 years old.
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