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Spring is coming to Meridiani Planum on Mars, heralding the end of permafrost for the Red Planet's all too short summer months. With average temperatures rising over the decades, a large impact crater has begun to turn into a natural lake, fed from the nearby plains and from natural precipitations. Moss and ferns have started to grow close to where there is water. In a few weeks, the ice will have melted, and flowers will blossom around the lake shore until the frost returns. In a few hundred years, humans will be able to bathe in it and breathe the atmosphere unaided.

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Image manipulation of an existing landscape on Mars.

Description
Spring is coming to Meridiani Planum on Mars, heralding the end of permafrost for the Red Planet's all too short summer months. With average temperatures rising over the decades, a large impact crater has begun to turn into a natural lake, fed from the nearby plains and from natural precipitations. Moss and ferns have started to grow close to where there is water. In a few weeks, the ice will have melted, and flowers will blossom around the lake shore until the frost returns. In a few hundred years, humans will be able to bathe in it and breathe the atmosphere unaided.

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Image manipulation of an existing landscape on Mars.