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Published online 16 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070312-11
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Caves spotted on Mars
Dark 'skylights' could be openings to martian shelters.
Some underground martian caves may have been spotted, thanks to 'skylight' holes into the caverns that have been photographed from above.
Glen Cushing, from the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Flagstaff, Arizona, got his first hint of the underground cave system from THEMIS (Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System) images of the Arsia Mons region near the equator of Mars.
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