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By most definitions, Mars is a dead planet. As far as we know, it doesn’t have life of any kind anywhere, and doesn’t really have the means t...

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 ...

Now that we have tens of thousands of images of Mars as seen from space at our disposal, it’s quite easy to say what a magnificent and mysterious p...

1-MIN READ 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. FOLLOW US ON: 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 s...

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 melt...