Giant Impact Basins Trace the Ancient Equator of Mars

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Mar 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005lpi....36.2177a&link_type=abstract

36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 14-18, 2005, in League City, Texas, abstract no.2177

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The rotation axis of Mars is determined from the location of 5 giant
impact basins. It is shown that the basins are located on a great
circle, suggesting that the circle was the equator of Mars at the time
of impacts, about 4 Gyr. ago.

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