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NASA confirms rocky landmark on planet Mars is named after Ayrshire town

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Ayrshire town is out of this world after it was confirmed a spot on MARS is named after it.Maybole has been given its place on the red planet with a strip of rock "benches" named after the South Ayrshire town.Ayrshire Live has gone where no newspaper has before to reveal that Maybole is one of many locations named by scientists after Scottish towns.NASA has confirmed that Maybole is one of the first series of rock "benches" discovered by their Mars team last year.Their space mission involves searching the planet with landmarks named after places back on Earth.

Maybole was stumbled upon by their Curiosity Rover vehicle on its 2,946th sol, with one sol a day on Mars, in November 2020.

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