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Extremely elongated cloud returns over Arsia Mons volcano, Mars
Friday, July 31, 2020 Friday, March 4, 2022
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) attached to Mars Express captured a mysteriously long, thin cloud over the 20 km (12 miles) high Arsia Mons volcano on July 17 and 19, 2020. According to ESA, the cloud is a recurrent feature made up of water ice and is influenced…
Stormy activity and rippling ice at Mars' north pole
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Friday, March 4, 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared a stunning image captured by Mars Express' High-Resolution Stereo Camera on the red planet, showing a stormy activity on the icy cap at the north pole, with swathes of ice, dark troughs, depressions, and signs of strong…
Mars Express finds remnants of mega-flood on Mars
Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet, providing evidence of ancient mega-flood on Mars, ESA announced today. The Kasei Valles channel system extends around 3 000 km (1 864 miles) from its source region in…
Siding Spring's flyby effects on Martian atmosphere revealed
Friday, November 7, 2014 Friday, March 25, 2022
Two NASA and one European spacecraft that obtained the first up-close observations of a comet flyby of Mars on October 19, 2014 have gathered new information about the basic properties of the comet's nucleus and directly detected the effects on the Martian atmosph
Space fleet ready for Siding Spring's historic brush with Mars
Friday, October 10, 2014 Friday, March 25, 2022
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is scheduled for a very close flyby at only about 139 500 km (88 000 miles) away from the surface of Mars on October 19, 2014 around 18:27 UTC. That is less than half the distance between Earth and its moon and less than one-tenth the distance
Mars express captures possible traces of water
Thursday, September 13, 2012 Friday, March 4, 2022
ESA's Mars Express spacecraft captured images of 120 km wide Hadley Crater which revealed there has been several subsequent impacts within the crater leading to formation of further craters, that are up to 2600 m deep than surrounding surface. This observation has
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