News on Mars
- Discovery of significant changes in Martian sand-dunes
- Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars
- ESAs Mars Express gravity results plot volcanic history
- Impact sites hint at life on Mars
- Pit chains may hold caverns ideal for life
- New explanation for layered deposits in Mars Grand-Canyon
- A mounting - INSIDE a crater on Mars
- Wake-up on to a dusty season on Mars
- Discovery of new kind of surface on mars
- Lakes and shorelines on mars
- Tornado on Mars
- Recent geological activity on Mars
- ESA's Mars-express find evidence of past ocean
- Surface on Mars unlikely place for life
- Mars: A thin but windy atmosphere
- Observing campain of Mars's north pole
- Landslides on Mars occur spontaniously
- Martian avalanches caused by meteor impacts
- Water on Mars: maybe martian microbes
- Mars rover finds mineral vein deposited by water
- Martian polar gullies created by CO2 fluidation
- Sand-dunes move on Mars
- Most Martian-clay is subsurface originated
- Direct measurement of Mars's past temperature
- Clusters of newly formed craters on Mars
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Mars facts
Mars: 4th planet from the Sun
Distance from Sun: 228mio km.
Diameter: 6.794km.
Surface-pressure: 0,001atm.
Atm composition: 99% CO
Temp: -100ºC to +20ºC
Moons: Phobos & Deimos
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Close-flyby images of Phobos
Monday, 24 January 2011 15:20
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ESA's Mars Express probe passed the Martian moon Phobos at a distance of only 100km last week.
Mars Express has returned images from the Phobos flyby of 9 January 2011. Mars Express passed Mars’ largest moon at a distance of 100km
Phobos is only 27 x 22 x 19km wide, and orbits Mars 6.000km above the martian surface SEE MORE IMAGES at ESA |
