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| | | | | | | Europe's eye on Mars
Images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA
23 January 2004
| This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, in colour and 3D, in orbit 18 on 14 January 2004 from a height of 275 km. The location is
south of Valles Marineris at 15° South and 323° East.
The resolution is 12 m per pixel, the area is 50 km across and shows a tectonically controlled karst-like structure in a vertical view. North is at top.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | |  |  | |
| | | | | This picture was taken by the High Resolution Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA's Mars Express, in colour and 3D, during orbit 18
on 14 January 2004 from a height of 275 km. The location is
in Valles Marineris at 5° North and 323° East.
The area is 50 km across, at a resolution of 12 m per pixel, and shows mesas and cliffs as well as flow features which indicate erosion by the action of flowing water.
The landscape is seen in a vertical view, with north at the bottom.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, in colour and 3D, in orbit 18 on 14 January 2004.
It shows a vertical view of a mesa in the true colours of Mars. The summit plateau stands about 3 km above the surrounding terrain. The original surface was dissected by erosion, only isolated mesas remained intact. The large crater has a diameter of 7.6 km
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, in colour and 3D, in orbit 18 on 15 January 2004 from a height of 273 km. The location is east of the Hellas basin at 41° South and 101° East.
The area is 100 km across, with a resolution of 12 m per pixel, and shows a channel (Reull Vallis) once formed by flowing water.
The landscape is seen in a vertical view, North is at the top.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
| | | | | This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, in colour and 3D, in orbit 32 on 19 January 2004. It shows a three-dimensional oblique view of the summit caldera of Albor Tholus, a volcano in the Elysium region. The caldera has a diameter of 30 km and a depth of 3 km. The volcano as a whole has a diameter of 160 km and a height of 4.5 km. This is geologically interesting, since the depth of the caldera approaches the height of the volcano, which is unusual on Earth. On the far left rim of the caldera, a bright 'dust fall' seems to flow from the surrounding plateau into the caldera.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) | | | | |
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