View of the Mars ‘angel’ with a big heart at the south pole of Mars
View of the Mars ‘angel’ with a big heart at the south pole of Mars
The DLR High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has been mapping the Red Planet in unprecedented resolution, in three dimensions and in colour, since 2004 as part of ESA’s Mars Express mission. In images recorded on 8 November 2020 during orbit 21,305, a yet unknown, nearly one-hundred-kilometre-long angelic figure near the south pole of Mars appears to want to greet Earth from a current distance of approximately 100 million kilometres.
