ESA – Generation Mars

October 2, 2019

Look at it. Just look at it.

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has been snapping pics for 16 years. This recently released pole-to-pole image is astoundingly beautiful. Be sure to click through to the article, where there’s lots of discussion of the details.

Mars Is Heaven!

A new and staggeringly huge image from Mars Express shows the Red Planet from pole to pole.

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December 21, 2018

Christmas crater

Here’s a nice Christmas card from Mars: a crater filled with water ice.

Mars Express gets festive: A winter wonderland on Mars

This image shows what appears to be a large patch of fresh, untrodden snow – a dream for any lover of the holiday season. However, it’s a little too distant for a last-minute winter getaway: this feature, known as Korolev crater, is found on Mars, and is shown here in beautiful detail as seen by…