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First Color Image of Mars

The Mars rover Spirit snapped this panoramic photo of Mars, the first color image ever taken of the red planet. Like other terrestrial planets (Earth, Mercury, and Venus), Mars's surface has been changed by volcanoes, hits from other bodies, and movements of its crust.

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Cornell