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n. (context astronomy geology English) The scientific observation and study of the planet Mars's geology; geology of Mars.
Usage examples of "areology".
Dandy was always ready to ask some question about areology, and Ilya was always ready to answer.
Hans talks about the areology of the volcano, and he and Stephan discuss the genetic engineering that makes the wildlife around them possible.
It was another case of what they called sky areology, which had a history going back to the early satellite photos, and even to the telescopes.
John traveled with them for a while as they roamed the great dune sea, doing areology and a bit of prospecting.
A recent assessment of the amount of underground water in the north had encouraged the Vastitas engineers to shoot for a final sea level very near the datum itself, the 0-kilometer contour that had been set back in the days of sky areology.
Another part of the mystery: no one had ever explained why the northern and southern hemispheres were so different, it was the problem in areology, a solution to which might prove the key to explaining all the other enigmas of the Martian landscape, as tectonic plate theory had once explained so many different problems in geology.