I've added a few more surface maps to my Mars Gallery. They show the distribution of a few of the minerals detected by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer on the Mars Global Surveyor.
See http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/gallery-002.html
primary location of hematite, a mineral usually produced by reactions with liquid water.
Mars mineral surfaces
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Mars mineral surfaces
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