Valles Marineris from Mars Express
Explanation:
Looking down from orbit on January 14, ESA's
Mars
Express spacecraft scanned a 1700 by 65 kilometer
swath across
Valles Marineris - the Grand Canyon of Mars -
with its remarkable High Resolution Stereo Camera.
This spectacular picture
reconstructs part of the scanned
region from the stereo colour image data recording the rugged
terrain with a resolution of 12 metres per pixel.
Joining
Mars
Global Surveyor and
Mars Odyssey,
Mars Express
has been orbiting the red planet since December 25th,
returning scientific data, acting as a communications relay, and
even making
coordinated
atmospheric observations with NASA's
Spirit
rover on the surface.
The Beagle 2
lander was released from Mars Express making
a landing attempt also on December 25th,
but no signal has been received so far.
Opportunity
Mars Landing News
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
