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An artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars. 

RYOSUKE MATSUZOE, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Like something out of a science-fiction movie, a mysterious, strangely shaped structure rises up from a barren red desert. Inside, buildings stand on tracts of green, grassy land and boats sail across vivid blue water -- all on near-vertical walls.

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