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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Detailed Martian scenes in new images from Mars Orbiter
Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:32
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The images taken from the orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs. Each of the 600 newly released observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers an area of several square miles on Mars and reveals details as small as desks. They cover a diversity of landscapes on Mars, including scenes with sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges, steep cliffs, lava flows and many other features. The HiRISE images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, are now available on NASA's Planetary Data System and the camera team's website. |




