ESA’s Mars Express celebrates 25,000 orbits with a new new high-altitude view of the planet captured by its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). This perspective also provides us with a fascinating look at the fractured, fissured canyons of Noctis Labyrinthus.
The spacecraft first arrived at the Red Planet in late 2003, and completed its 25 000th orbit on October 19, 2023. Since then, it has mapped the atmosphere more completely than ever before, traced the history of water across Mars’s surface, studied the two small martian moons in extreme detail, and returned jaw dropping views of the planet in three dimensions.
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Some fascinating weather features can be seen to the bottom of the frame, where a blue tinge creeps into this otherwise sand-hued scene. The colorful bands are clouds: a small, bright band of clouds to the right, and rippling ‘lee wave’ clouds to the left,” said the European Space Agency.
