Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars.
The findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The mounds lie north of a feature of Mars known as the Martian dichotomy, where the towering, ancient highlands of the ...
Scientists believe they have solved the 50-year-old mystery surrounding the Martian dichotomy. Credit: Kevin M. Gill. CC BY 2.0/Flickr Scientists believe they have solved the 50-year-old mystery ...
Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled scientists since it was discovered in the 1970s. The southern highlands of Mars ...