Letter: Letters : My bit of Mars

From R. S. Vallis

Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland

I read with considerable interest your editorial about celestial real estate
and the articles about Mars
(“2011: A Mars odyssey”, 20 September, p 28).

Many areas on Mars seem to be named after members of my family. The
Pathfinder probe landed in a valley named after me, Ares (pronounced RS)
Vallis.

I have generously decided not to charge NASA for the use of my Martian real
estate.