Plain on an extraterrestrial object.
1As Uno came down onto the planitia, he flexed his knees, and they bore the brunt of the impact.
2But it would be better to stop them on the open planitia, rather than let them get somewhere that could be defended.
3It's still out there on the planitia, where they first landed-althoughit's just a skeleton now; looters have taken all the good parts.
4For example, here is the first color image of Utopia Planitia.
5Isidis Planitia is a plain, after all-itwas great for racing.
6And here's Utopia Planitia covered in a thin layer of frost.
7Water frost forms on the ground at the Viking 2 landing site in Utopia Planitia.
8NASA's InSight is currently probing the interior of Mars on a plain called Elysium Planitia.
9The one here was a solid kilometer of Isidis Planitia that had been cleared of rocks.
10Isidis Planitia is a giant, shallow impact basin.
11Image: NASA Water frost forms on the ground at the Viking 2 landing site in Utopia Planitia.
12The Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed images of the spacecraft from its landing site, known as Elysium Planitia.
13Viking 2 on the rocky northern plain of Utopia Planitia, September 1976.
14It was supposed to touch down on Isidis Planitia in 2003, but no signal was ever picked up from it.
15"Berling!" I shouted, as soon as I'd landed on the planitia.
16Viking 2 landed at 6:38 p.m. EDT on Utopia Planitia, the largest impact crater on Mars.
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