Mars Express – Generation Mars

August 7, 2024

Luna and Mars

It looks so close! This is an actual image taken from Earth of Mars emerging from lunar occultation. Taken by Andrew McCarthy using a 14″ telescope.

The next Generation Mars book, Food, takes place on both Luna and Mars. And points between…

December 3, 2019

This is incredibly cool. Sean Doran has used imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express to create a massive image of the landscape Curiosity has traveled through. The detail here is astonishing.

MSL Traverse map v1.0

1.8 billion pixels 09x HiRISE DTM’s
10x CTX
02x HRSC

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…

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Luna and Mars

Curiosity’s path

Look at it. Just look at it.

Christmas crater