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From the top left clockwise;

1) The centre of the view shows the high cold deserts of Tharsis and it's volcanoes, flanked by the Tharsis Ice Sheet. Olympus Mons and it's ice sheet stands to the top-left, while the Mariner Valley is on the right, in dusk.

2) The deserts of Promethei Terra and Tyrrhena Terra, with the island continent of Elysium in the top-right and the Caribbean-sized Hellas Sea in the bottom-left. The large circular gulf above the Hellas is the Isidis Gulf, an arm of the Great Northern Ocean.

3) The Great Southern Desert, around the south polar cap, shown in the long southern summer. This area is still very dry and cold, with little life. The blue circle to the right of the picture is Lake Newton, in a large crater.

4) The Chryse Gulf, a complex system of channels and lakes and rivers, which joins the Great Northern Ocean (via the Acidalia Sea) to the Mariner Valley, shown on the left of the picture. In the bottom-right is the edge of the Hellas, and the bottom-left shows the still relatively dry Argyre Basin. The top-right shows the vast array of cool swamps and crater-lakes that makes up the Arabia Terra.

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Filling a request from

From the top left clockwise;

1) The centre of the view shows the high cold deserts of Tharsis and it's volcanoes, flanked by the Tharsis Ice Sheet. Olympus Mons and it's ice sheet stands to the top-left, while the Mariner Valley is on the right, in dusk.

2) The deserts of Promethei Terra and Tyrrhena Terra, with the island continent of Elysium in the top-right and the Caribbean-sized Hellas Sea in the bottom-left. The large circular gulf above the Hellas is the Isidis Gulf, an arm of the Great Northern Ocean.

3) The Great Southern Desert, around the south polar cap, shown in the long southern summer. This area is still very dry and cold, with little life. The blue circle to the right of the picture is Lake Newton, in a large crater.

4) The Chryse Gulf, a complex system of channels and lakes and rivers, which joins the Great Northern Ocean (via the Acidalia Sea) to the Mariner Valley, shown on the left of the picture. In the bottom-right is the edge of the Hellas, and the bottom-left shows the still relatively dry Argyre Basin. The top-right shows the vast array of cool swamps and crater-lakes that makes up the Arabia Terra.