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Having an account backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the similar agency that insures credit union deposits protects you from losing money in a bank failure. Individuals can keep up to $250,000 in an account and have it fully insured.

If all you want is an account that allows for basic checking, bill pay, ATM access and a debit card, basic no-interest checking is the least costly way to go. But increasingly banks are starting to require minimum balances (in the range of $1,000 to $1,500) to avoid monthly service charges or per-item fees, such as 25 cents to $1 per check when you write more than 10 checks a month. The average minimum deposit to open a basic account is $68.

Many banks pay a small amount, say $35, for new customers who sign up for services like direct deposit of payroll checks or online bill pay. Both direct deposit and online bill pay are also ways to avoid monthly account fees because some banks require them to qualify for the fee to be waived.

Interest-bearing checking accounts on average require a $3,400 minimum balance, according to Bankrate, and it takes an average minimum deposit of $473 to open one. Monthly service charges for dipping below the minimum balance were an average of $12.55 last year, a record high.

The old saying in real estate goes for banking, too. Suburban commuters and frequent travelers need banks with lots of branches and ATMs scattered over a wide geography. This is especially vital to avoiding fees banks charge for using other banks' ATMs.

Survey after survey names ATM surcharges as the bank fee that angers consumers the most. Last year, the average fee banks charged non-customers for using their ATMs rose 12% to more than $2, according to Bankrate.com. Your own bank is going to charge you, too--an average of $1.32 for using another bank's ATM. To avoid these fees, pick a bank that has a lot of its own ATMs and stick to those machines only.

Last year, banks raked in $40 billion in checking overdraft fees, one-time charges that average $27 for each bounced check or debit overdraft charge, but can be as high as $35 an item. One way to avoid overdrawing your account is to sign up for e-mail or mobile text alerts from your bank to notify you of a low account balance. Most banks still offer this service for free.

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Mars polar regions are of great interest as they are known to contain records of past atmospheric, environmental, and climate conditions.

The impact crater - 330m in diameter - is used to estimate the age of the surface.

More than 10 per cent of the surface area in the North of Mars is covered by windblown sand dunes.

This large crescent-shaped hill is located in a region where some dunes have been shrinking.

This image shows a dust devil blowing across the Martian surface.

Dust devils form when the temperature of the atmosphere near the ground is much warmer than that above.

The Victoria Crater, near the equator of Mars, is approximately 800m in diameter.

The distinctive shape is caused by erosion and crater wall material moving downhill. A field of sand dunes sits on the crater floor.

This 4km-wide feature, near the edge of Mars's south polar cap, has previously been photographed by other orbiters in the 1970s.

The bright areas are covered by carbon dioxide frost and the "swiss cheese" terrain is typical of the region.

Each layer of deposits on the floor of Becquerel Crater are only a few metres thick.

The sediments may have come from windblown debris, volcanic ash in the sky, or a lake on the crater floor.