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Mars is a cold, dry terrestrial planet with a thin carbon-dioxide atmosphere, giant volcanoes, deep canyons, polar ice caps, widespread impact terrain, and abundant evidence that liquid water was more important in its ancient past.
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Mars's lower gravity and lack of active plate tectonics allowed volcanoes to remain over long-lived mantle sources and grow to extreme size.
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