Although people generally refer to it as the Red Planet, Mars is not actually red. Sure, seen from afar, it may look a bit reddish, due to the oxidation .
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High Resolution Images Show Chaotic Terrain on Mars’ Surface Near Valles Marineris
The Mars Express orbiter, which carries a High Resolution Stereo Camera, has been performing scientific measurements successfully since 2004, a year after its unch from Earth.
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Mars Express, the mission to explore the planet Mars being conducted by the European Space Agency, has recently captured high resolution images of a fascinating landscape on the surface of the planet.
The images show a “chaotic terrain” near the VallesMarineris, a major canyon system on Mars. The Mars Express orbiter, which carries a High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), has been performing scientific measurements successfully since 2004, a year after its launch from Earth.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has imaged a fascinating landscape near the major canyon system of Valles Marineris on the Red Planet.
This image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express shows craters, valleys and chaotic terrain in Pyrrhae Regio, Mars. Chaotic terrain forms as a shifting subsurface layer of melting ice and sediment causes the surface above to collapse. In the chaotic terrain seen here, ice has melted, the resulting water drained away, and a number of disparate broken blocks have been left standing in now-empty cavities (which once hosted ice). This image comprises data gathered by HRSC on August 3, 2020. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.