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A view from above: a glacier near Thyles Rupes
16 SEP. 2026 publication date 283 Views

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows a bird’s-eye view of Thyles Rupes, one of the most prominent cliff-faces in Mars’s ancient southern highlands. Prominently, part of the South Polar ice cap can be seen to the bottom-left of the frame, with other thicker deposits of ice visible on the surrounding terrain and in a nearby crater (top right).

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[Image description: A pink-white-coloured patch of Mars, with ridges running from top left to bottom right. At the bottom left is a bright white-blue triangular patch, it looks icy. Overall, the landscape has a soft, swirly, mottled appearance.]

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ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA Standard Licence

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