Ayup — there’s a Bar Harbor on Mars, too
Mainers like to say you can’t get there from here. But when it comes to the new Bar Harbor, it actually is true.
This Bar Harbor is tens of million miles away — on Mars. It’s the informal name of a neighborhood on the red planet that a NASA scientist has affectionately filled in, along with other salty Maine place names, including Squid Cove, Lobster Mountain, Old Soaker, and Ogunquit Beach.
The Mars versions are the places on the planet that the Curiosity rover began exploring last year. A NASA geologist, Dr. Katie Stack Morgan, settled on the names by reaching back to childhood memories of summers in Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.
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