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Five years of Mars Express – a European success story 29 May 2008 Now more than ever, Mars is the focus of planetary research. A week after the resoundingly successful landing manoeuvre of NASA’s Phoenix probe, scientists and engineers are celebrating the five-year anniversary of the launch of Mars Express, the first ever European planetary mission. The mission has already been extended a second time. "Mars Express has shown that Europe can assume a very important role in researching our solar system", says Professor Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) while commenting on the Mars probe’s success. |
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The Libya Montes highland region 27 March 2006 A video and images generated from data gathered by the DLR-operated High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter show a sweep of the near-equatorial region Libya Montes, lying south of the Isidis Planitia impact basin. |
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'Hourglass' crater - new video and perspectives 17 March 2006 A video and new images, both from data gathered by the DLR-operated High Resolution Stereo Camera onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, show an unusual flow deposit on the floors of two adjacent impact craters in the eastern Hellas Planitia region, indicating possible glacial processes. |
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Fly over the Chasma Boreale at the Martian north pole 18 October 2005 This is a video of images taken by the DLR-operated High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, showing part of the Martian north polar ice cap. The images show sharp detail of a series of scarps at the head of Chasma Boreale, a giant trough that almost divides the north polar ice cap in two. |
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