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Sharper Hubble Space Telescope shows great pictures of Mars
News story originally written on March 20, 1997

NASA's improved Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has taken some great new pictures of Mars. The photos were taken when Mars was at its closest point to the Earth (60 million miles).


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