News tagged with mars express
Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously ...
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Mars Express reveals wind-blown deposits on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Once thought to be a sea of water, the region is now known to be a volcanic province dating back billions of years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2012 |
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MARSIS completes measurement campaign over Martian North Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Mountains and buried ice on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Battered Tharsis Tholus volcano on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the aeons.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Mars Express observations temporarily suspended
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images taken by ESA’s Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Mars' northern polar regions in transition
A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Springtime at Mars' south pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the planet’s climate and constantly change ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars
Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep and probably ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2011 |
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Neighboring volcanoes on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of mist-capped volcanoes located in the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Long after volcanic activity ceased, the area was transformed by ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Vast areas of low latitude subsurface ice found on Mars
There could be more subsurface ice on Mars than previously thought, and vast stretches of it may lie just south of the equator. Indeed, one of the proposed landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory could ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2011 |
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