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Published online 20 March 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020318-7

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Height ices Mars on top

Martian atmosphere churns harder in south making north wetter.

Scientists have figured out why it's wet up north - on Mars. A new computer simulation of the martian atmosphere suggests that the planet's geography causes differences in atmospheric circulation within the northern and southern hemispheres.

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