Page 6 - Mars Expres News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Mars Express and the case of the large, mysterious Martian volcano cloud April 21, 2021 Throughout the southern Martian hemisphere’s spring and summer seasons, a large, expansive cloud emerges daily from the volcano Arsia Mons.  Why this cloud only forms at this location on Mars, what kind of cloud it is, and other puzzles to this phenomenon have plagued researchers for years — as observing Martian weather usually only happens by accident during other investigations. Now, a team of researchers primarily using the Mars Express orbiter from the European Space Agency (ESA) — as well as da...

Incredible Mars Photos Show Strange 1,100-Mile-Long Cloud Above a Volcano On 3/10/21 at 11:07 AM EST The European Space Agency has published incredible images of a strange "extremely elongated" cloud in the atmosphere above the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. The images of the 1,100-mile-long cloud were captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera on the Mars Express spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet for more than 15 years. The long, thin cloud of water ice appears at certain times of the Martian year—which lasts about 687 Earth days—above the 12-mile-high Arsia Mons volcano, loc...

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 standin...

December 19, 2020 Ahead of Christmas, the Mars spacecraft “Shape of Angels” near the South Pole by Jake Pearson Santa is getting ready Christmas on Earth At the North Pole of the Earth, angels enter a holiday celebration South Pole of Mars. One week before Christmas, a spacecraft discovered an “angel shape” and a large heart at the South Pole of Mars. This week, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express’ high-resolution stereo camera “defined wings in the shape of an angel, complete with halo”, and captured a large heart nearby. The pair of festi...