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	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 8, 2007.
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This is a 2007 Featured article that has not been maintained to FA standards.

• With an automatic archival set to age=60, many unaddressed items have been swept into archives without being addressed.
• There is considerable uncited text.
• There are stubby paragraphs and sections.
• Images have been jammed in without consideration for layout, and there is considerable MOS:SANDWICHing.
• A review for outdated text and MOS:CURRENT is needed, eg, The current understanding ...
• A WP:MOS review is needed, eg unspaced WP:EMDASHes at ... six in orbit — 2001 Mars Odyssey, ...
• There are citation cleanup needs and questionable sources, eg ... JPL Horizons for Mars (mb=499) and Observer Location: @Sun and ... "Online Atlas of Mars". Ralphaeschliman.com. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
• External links need to be trimmed.
• The article has 9,900 words of prose; the featured version has 6,000, so the article has grown by almost 50%, with text unvetted in any content review process.

This article should be submitted to Featured article review. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:57, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]