Why, thankee kindly for having noticed.So much goodness in this thread - from connecting Kimbal's work & Boring tunnels and Audie's new 'subareolian' terminology. Props to @sjoshuaj for starting it.
My first - okay, second after ornithology - desired course of study in undergraduate was in areology. Unfortunately, back in the lower Oligocene that was a field not available, so it was on to geochemistry and others.
In a neat twist, a still-fond former romantic attachment has become a Mars expert and, dear that she is, she gave me to hold one of those more-precious-than-diamonds "Mars Rocks", from one of the Antarctic Dry Valley meteorites.
So, while I've not been to Mars, Mars has been to me. How magnificent is that?!?!