A
four-color collage shows a cloudy Mars imaged by the European Mars Express.
The
Mars Express probe took the images with a low-tech camera designed solely to confirm
that its Beagle lander had separated from the mothership. The Beagle ended up crashing into a crater near its planned landing site, but the visual
monitoring camera has continued to work and now provides low-res "webcam"
images that take frequent snapshots of Mars. Bill Dunford from Utah created the
collage by using GIMP image processing software to color the four images, ending
up with a Warhol-esque montage.
Mars
Express recently got a close
look at the Martian moon Phobos, and has a final flyby set for August 3.
— ESA, B. Dunford and SPACE.com
Staff
Credit: ESA, B.
Dunford
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