Tag Archives: High Resolution Stereo Camera

HRSC: Crashing into martian mud

Posted on September 15, 2017 by rburnham

An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars. Impacts of comets and asteroids have shaped the surfaces of rocky planets and moons over the Solar System’s 4.6 billion … Continue reading →

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HRSC: Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise

Posted on August 10, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Tributes to wetter times on Mars

Posted on July 13, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Window to a watery past

Posted on June 8, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Crater triplets

Posted on April 6, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Remnants of a mega-flood

Posted on March 2, 2017 by rburnham

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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MEX: Swirling spirals at the north pole of Mars

Posted on February 2, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Frost build-up near Mars north pole

Posted on January 23, 2017 by rburnham

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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HRSC: Adamas Labyrinthus

Posted on November 28, 2016 by rburnham

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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HRSC: A record of ancient tectonic stress

Posted on November 3, 2016 by rburnham

Sets of ridges and troughs some 1000 km north of the giant Olympus Mons volcano contain a record of the intense tectonic stresses and strains experienced in the Acheron Fossae region on Mars 3.7–3.9 billion years ago. This scene, captured … Continue reading →

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