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Olympus Mons SE Flank
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
A portion of the southeastern flank of Olympus Mons as imaged by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on January 21, 2013.
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Viking's View of Mars
Credit: The Viking Project/NASA
A photo of Mars from NASA's Viking spacecraft, which launched in 1975.
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Half-Lit Mars by Mars Express
Credit: ESA
This Mars photo from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft was taken on Dec. 15, 2012, and beamed to Earth on Dec. 18. The spacecraft was 9.761 kilometers from Mars at the time.
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Strange Mars Photo Includes Tantalizing 'Tree' Illusion
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
This new image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an optical illusion. What appears to be trees rising from the Martian surface are actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation. The image was released in Jan. 2010.
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How Microbes Could Help Colonize Mars
Credit: NASA/J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI)
Some believe we could 'terraform' Mars to make it more like Earth, eliminating the need for protective habitats for future human colonizers.
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Mars Canals Diagram
Credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. Gallant, HST, NASA
(Left) This 1894 map of Mars was prepared by Eugene Antoniadi and redrawn by Lowell Hess. (Right) A Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars shows the modern view of our neighboring planet.
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Planet Size Comparison: Venus, Earth and Mars
Credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute
A comparison of the sizes of planets Venus (left), Earth and Mars.
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Ancient Lake: Mars Ebserswalde Crater
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
Mars' 3.7 billion-year-old Eberswalde crater can be seen here in relief. The crater offer more proof that liquid water once flowed on Mars.
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Hubble Snaps Photos of Giant Martian Dust Storm
Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (Cornell University), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
Hubble image of Mars taken on October 28, 2005. This image shows a 930-mile long dust storm raging across the equator.
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Mars' Moon Phobos
Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
Mars' largest moon Phobos, as seen during a recent flyby performed by the European spacecraft Mars Express.
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Mars Moon Phobos Likely Forged by Catastrophic Blast
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
The ESA spacecraft Mars Express took this image of Phobos on March 7, 2010. This image has been enhanced for seeing features in the less-illuminated part of the moon.
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Mars’ Northern Polar Regions
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
This image was acquired by the Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera on 17 May 2010 and shows a part of the northern polar region of Mars at the northern hemisphere summer solstice.
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Gale Crater: Future Home of Mars Rover Curiosity
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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Gandhi Face on Mars, High-resolution
Credit: ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
Photo taken of the Gandhi face geologic feature by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Valles Marineris, Giant Canyon on Mars
Credit: Viking Project, USGS, NASA
Valles Marineris, the grand valley of Mars, extends over 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) long, spans as much as 370 miles (600 kilometers) across, and plunges as much as 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep.
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The Face on Mars
Credit: NASA
The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on July, 25 1976. Image shows a remnant massif located in the Cydonia region.
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Mars' Tharsis Montes Volcanoes
Credit: NASA
A view of Mars' three large Tharsis Montes volcanoes, which lie in a straight line. Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system, is at upper left.
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Mars' Lake Phoenicis Lacus
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin (G. Neukum)
Phoenicis Lacus has an area of 8100 sq km (59.5 x 136 km), which corresponds to the size of Corsica. This image was obtained on July 31, 2010 using the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft.
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Mud Volcanoes May Help Search for Life on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The mounds shown here, located in the Southern Acidalia Planitia, range in size between 20 and 500 meters in diameter.
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Bull's-Eye on Mars Revealed
Bull's-eye impact crater.
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Water Flowed on Mars More Recently Than Thought
Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS
Melting glaciers spawned rivers on Mars as recently as several hundred million years ago. This image shows a river that sprang from a past glacier from an unnamed crater in Mars’ middle latitudes.
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