ESA’s Mars Express has provided new insights into Mars’s Medusae Fossae Formation, revealing deep layers of water ice, the largest such discovery in the region.…
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The solar conjunction of Mars occurs approximately every 25 months, disrupting communication with Mars missions. In 2023, Mars will pass directly behind the Sun, causing…
An artist’s impression of Mars Express. The spacecraft left Earth for Mars on June 2, 2003. It reached its destination after a six-month journey, and…
Chaotic Crust Contains Clues to Mars’ Watery Past in Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet
Holden Basin on Mars. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a portion of the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava (ULM) outflow system, which may have once drained up…
Ius and Tithonium Chasmata on Mars. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, which form part of Mars’ Valles Marineris canyon…
Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of Mars taken by the spacecraft’s high resolution stereo camera. Credit: Spacecraft…
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of a large fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae. This image comprises data gathered by…
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Utopia Planitia, a plain that fills one of three major basins in the northern hemisphere of Mars –…
This oblique perspective view of the Jovis Tholus shield volcano on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and color channels…
Mars Express relays data from Zhurong. Credit: ESA This November, ESA’s MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet…
Using a series of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ flybys, ESA’s Mars Express has clarified a long-standing martian mystery: if and how Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, reflects…
The first true-color image generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green and blue color filters. The image was acquired on February 24, 2007, at 19:28…
Our planetary neighbors are getting into the holiday spirit with this pair of festive silhouettes spotted by ESA’s Mars Express. The defined wings of an…
This image shows a triple crater in the ancient martian highlands. The largest crater measures 45 km across, and the smallest 28 km. There are…
Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of Mars taken by the spacecraft’s high resolution stereo camera. Credit: Spacecraft…
This image of the Moreux crater in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars comprises data gathered on October 30, 2019, during orbit 20014. The ground…
This image shows part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs…