14 / 15

13. Newfoundland Left its Mark on Mars

Commander Hadfield has been educating and entertaining us from space for the last few months, but Canada’s reach into space extends further than the International Space Station. There is a crater on Mars that has been named for the town of Gander, Newfoundland. The 39-km (diameter) crater was dedicated to Gander in 1991 because of the town’s history of pioneering aviation and aerospace technologies.

(Photo courtesy of Thinkstock)