News on Mars
- 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
- Water supersaturation in Mars atmosphere
- Mars could support life recently in its history
- Aging Mars-rover on verge of new discovery
- Endeavour crater provides possible evidence of past wate
- Rare martian lake delta spotted by ESA's Mars Express
- A rock like no other on Mars
- Dikes provide insight into early history of Mars
- View of Mars-crater "Odyssey"s interior plains
- Martian soil oxidation-reduction potential not too extreme for life
- Droplets of water on Mars
- Mars channels carved på floods of lava
- Mars summer and transition leaves pole covered in water-ice
- Flowing water 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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Hundreds of new views from telescope obiting Mars
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:22
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The latest set of new images from the telescopic High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter offers detailed views of diverse Martian landscapes. Features as small as desks are revealed in the 314 observations made between June 6 and July 7, 2010, now available on NASA's Planetary Data System. The camera is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in 2006. Here are a few of the new images as an example, zooming in on detailes in a craterwall
Browse the images at The HiRISE teams homepage |
