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Tag Archives: MEX
HRSC: Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise
An ancient mountain range on Mars preserves a complex volcanic and tectonic past imprinted with signs of water and ice interactions. The images, taken on 9 April by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express, show the Thaumasia mountains … Continue reading
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Tagged Coracis Fossae, DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, Solis Planum, Thaumasia mountains
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HRSC: Tributes to wetter times on Mars
A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA’s Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator at the boundary of the southern … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Libya Montes, Mars Express, MEX, valley networks
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HRSC: Window to a watery past
This 70 km-wide crater and its surrounds offer a window into the watery past of the Red Planet. The scene, captured by ESA’s Mars Express, is a composite of two images taken in March 2007 and February 2017. It focuses … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, chaotic terrain, DLR, Erythraeum Chaos, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Margaritifer Terra, Mars Express, MEX, Noachis Terra, valley networks
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HRSC: Crater triplets
At first glance this scene may seem nothing out of the ordinary, but the large elongated crater marks the imprint of an impacting body that may have broken into three before it hit Mars. The images were acquired by ESA’s … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, impacts, Mars Express, MEX, Terra Sirenum, triplet craters
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HRSC: Remnants of a mega-flood
ESA’s Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet. The Kasei Valles channel system extends around 3000 km from its source region in Echus Chasma – which lies east of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chryse Planitia, DLR, Echus Chasma, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Kasei Valles, Mars Express, MEX, Worcester Crater
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MEX: Swirling spirals at the north pole of Mars
A new mosaic from ESA’s Mars Express shows off the Red Planet’s north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs. The mosaic was generated from 32 individual orbit ‘strips’ captured between 2004 and 2010, and covers an area … Continue reading
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Tagged Chasma Boreale, DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, north polar ice cap, north polar region
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HRSC: Frost build-up near Mars north pole
This animated gif shows the build up of frosts in a 73 x 41 km section of the north polar ice cap of Mars between November and December 2004. The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on … Continue reading
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Tagged CO2 frost, DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, north polar ice cap
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HRSC: Adamas Labyrinthus
This labyrinth-like system of troughs and plateaus was imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 21 June 2016. It shows part of a region known as Adamas Labyrinthus, which is found in Utopia Planitia in the northern lowlands of Mars. Here, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adamas Labyrinthus, DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, Utopia Planitia
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Beagle 2 landed intact and deployed most or all of its solar panels, says new study
Scientists in Leicester [UK] have moved one step closer to understanding exactly what happened to the ill-fated Mars Lander Beagle 2, thanks to an innovative research technique. The probe was discovered on the Red Planet in November 2014 but uncertainty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beagle 2, ESA, European Space Agency, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MEX, MRO
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Mars ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to observations from ESA’s Mars Express. Understanding these effects may be crucial for ensuring safe radio communications between Mars and Earth … Continue reading