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Happy Face Crater:

There is a big crater on Mars called the Galle crater. A spacecraft called Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is orbiting Mars and it took few pictures with a camera equipped with a special wide-angle lens. The "happy faced" crater is 215 kilometres wide (about the distance between Ottawa and Montreal).
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