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Jurassic Landscape
The choice of the Ramon Crater in Israel's desolate Negev desert was no coincidence: it is a spectacular desert phenomenon with many similarities to the Martian landscape, as documented by the now famous generation of Mars rovers. The Ramon crater is 40 kilometers in diameter and up to 500 meters deep. Truncation of mountain ridges and formation of sand valleys developed some 40 million years ago.
The astronauts used drones to explore their Martian desert backyard. Previous missions were conducted before the pandemic in the deserts of Utah and Oman.