Mars Express looks at mysterious Martian moon after software update

Mars Express looks at mysterious Martian moon after software update

After nearly twenty years of operation, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has received a software update that allows it to look at the mysterious Martian moon Phobos at much greater detail than ever before. “During this flyby, we used MARSIS to study Phobos from as close as 83 km. Getting closer allows […]

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ESA’s Mars Express captures image of ‘Martian Grand Canyon’ bigger than the real thing

ESA’s Mars Express captures image of ‘Martian Grand Canyon’ bigger than the real thing

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express probe has captured images of the Valles Marineris, which is the largest canyon system in the Solar System. Valles Marineris is almost ten times longer, twenty times wider and five times deeper than the Grand Canyon. To put that into perspective, it spans a distance larger than that […]

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Take a look at this ‘open eye’ crater on Mars

Take a look at this ‘open eye’ crater on Mars

This image of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars shows a 30 kilimetre-wide which is nestled within a landscape of winding channels. Resembling veins running through a human eyeball, these channels are likely to have carried liquid water across the surface of the red planet around 3.5-4 billion years ago. […]

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