DLR Portal
Home
|
Sitemap
|
Contact
Imprint and terms of use
Privacy
Cookies & Tracking
|
Deutsch
You are here:
Home
:
News Archive
Advanced Search
About us
Core Programme
Innovation and New Markets
National Contact Point Space
ESA Affairs
Publications
News Archive
Back to article
Bright areas on Martian hillsides
1/2
Next
Download this image:
Hi-Res JPEG (0.8 MB)
On this image, wide expanses of Kieserite, a hydrated magnesium sulphate salt, can be seen. Hydrated implies that water molecules are incorporated into the crystalline structure. Kieserite produces the bright areas on the slopes of the western Candor Chasma, one of the largest canyons in the Valles Marineris on Mars. The Valles Marineris stretches for over 4000 kilometres from west to east along the Martian equator.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum).
Related Articles
DLR-Planetenforscher zeigen Analogien zwischen Mars und Hawaii
Raumsonde Phoenix: Landung auf dem Mars - deutsche Digital-Kamera mit an Bord
Links
DLR Institute of Planetary Research
DLR Mars Express Special
COSPAR 2010
News Archives
News-Archiv 2023
News Archive 2022
News Archive 2021
News Archive 2020
News Archive 2019
News Archive 2018
News Archive 2017
News Archive 2016
News Archive 2015
News Archive 2014
News Archive 2013
News Archive 2012
News Archive 2011
News Archive 2010
News Archive 2009
News Archive 2008
News Archive 2007
News Archive 2006
Copyright © 2024 German Aerospace Center (DLR). All rights reserved.