OMEGA image of the southern polar cap of Mars 18 January (ESA – OMEGA) Mars Express, ESA’s first mission to Mars, will reach its final orbit on 28 January. It has already been producing stunning ...

From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily like a butterfly pressed into the planet’s dusty crust. Captured by NASA’s ...

The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Here we report on the activities so far. For the operational period up to now, Mars Express has been making its closest ...

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A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a channel called the Ares Vallis. Created from data taken by the European Space ...

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a cold, desert world within our solar system. It has a very thin atmosphere, but ...