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Volcanoes raged on Mars as recently as 50,000 years ago, new research suggests. Scientists previously thought Mars' volcanoes shut down some 3 million years ago, but new dark deposits spotted near the young tectonic fissure Cerberus Fossae suggest otherwise.


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