Space | 18. December 2014 | posted by Elke Heinemann

Simpler usage rights: as of today, Mars Express HRSC images licensed under Creative Commons licence

Eis in der Region Promethei Planum auf dem Mars

Since its arrival at the red planet in December 2003, imagery of ESA's Mars Express mission enjoys great popularity, with the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the spacecraft, which is operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), playing a major role. Since January 2004, ESA, DLR and Freie Universität Berlin continuously and jointly publish still and moving high-resolution images of Mars' surface. read more