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Mars Express

Mars Armada Resumes Contact with NASA – Ready to Rock ‘n Roll n’ Drill

May 2, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter After taking a well deserved and unavoidable break during April’s solar conjunction with Mars that blocked two way communication with Earth, NASA’s powerful Martian fleet of orbiters and rovers have reestablished contact and are alive and well and ready to Rock [...]

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Terran Fleet at Mars Takes a Break for Conjunction – Enjoy the Video and Parting View

April 6, 2013

Earth’s science invasion fleet at Mars is taking a break from speaking with their handlers back on Earth. Why ? Because as happens every 26 months, the sun has gotten directly in the way of Mars and Earth. Earth, Mars and the Sun are lined up in nearly a straight line. The geometry is normal [...]

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Gorgeous Images: Ancient River on Mars?

January 18, 2013

The Mars Express has long been taking pictures of what appears to be an ancient riverbed on Mars. In fact, Reull Vallis was one of the first objects on the Red Planet that Mars Express ever imaged back in 2004 when the spacecraft arrived in orbit. The latest images show the sinuous river-like feature that [...]

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Video: What Would Mars Look Like to an Astronaut in Orbit?

August 21, 2012

Future human Mars mission preview! The team from Mars Express put this great video together which shows what Mars looks like from above, during an elliptical orbit. They created it using 600 individual still images captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), and it shows the view from a visiting spacecraft’s slow descent from high [...]

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Zoom into an Ancient and Fractured Martian Landscape

August 3, 2012

Peer at this new image of Mars’ Ladon Basin and you get some notion of the violence that took place during the early history of Mars. ESA’s Mars Express imaged the southern part of the partially buried crater informally known as Ladon Basin. The basin is the site of an ancient impact which is about [...]

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