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Mars Express, im Orbit seit bald 15 Jahren, hat wieder mal eine faszinierende Landschaft auf unserem Nachbarplaneten aufgenommen:
Mars Express gets festive: A Winter Wonderland
Korolev crater is 82 kilometres across and found in the northern lowlands of Mars, just south of a large patch of dune-filled terrain that encircles part of the planet’s northern polar cap (known as Olympia Undae). It is an especially well-preserved example of a martian crater and is filled not by snow but ice, with its centre hosting a mound of water ice some 1.8 kilometres thick all year round.
Credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin
Mars Express gets festive: A Winter Wonderland
Korolev crater is 82 kilometres across and found in the northern lowlands of Mars, just south of a large patch of dune-filled terrain that encircles part of the planet’s northern polar cap (known as Olympia Undae). It is an especially well-preserved example of a martian crater and is filled not by snow but ice, with its centre hosting a mound of water ice some 1.8 kilometres thick all year round.
Credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin