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Next destination: Valiamala Crater, Mars P.O.
The Morning Standard
|November 27, 2025
FOR decades, it has been joked that Neil Armstrong was beaten to the moon by a Malayali tea-seller.
But when humanity sets foot on Mars, landforms named after places in the state will be waiting for them.The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has, in a first, approved names of Kerala localities—Valiamala, Thumba, Bekal, Varkala and Periyar—as well as of noted geologist M S Krishnan, to identify craters on the neighbouring planet.
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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