The dark rocks, red soil, and green-tinged sky grace this rendition of a normal Martian afternoon. At the bottom corners of the picture are portions of Viking spacecraft. The red color of the rocks is caused by an abundance of iron in the soil. The Martian surface is covered by rocks, huge craters , fantastic canyons , and gigantic volcanoes that dwarf any on Earth . No life has been found, but some speculate that since not all spacecraft reaching Mars from Earth had been fully decontaminated , Earth born microbes might live there now .
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