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Mars from above

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AllAboutSp­ace NASA’s Mars Reconnaiss­ance belt of Orbiter (MRO) is a conveyer fantastic birds-eye pictures of the Martian terrain. Its snaps are these two most recent pictures of the Aram Chaos (174-mile) (above), a 280-kilometre diameter impact crater created over 2.5 billion years ago, south pole of Mars (left), and the showing blotches of spider-esque The MRO uses its surface features. excellent High Resolution (HiRISE) Imaging Science camera to carefully Experiment examine the land down below. craters like the Aram Chaos Examining can reveal their past, such once held a lake as how this crater based on its colour contrast altered and the appearance of minerals by water. The south pole’s ‘spiders’ are in fact radiating form when carbon dioxide mounds that heats up and escapes, which about the physical tells astronomer­s processes going on in active seasonal cycles.

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1 April 2018 / 13 May 2018• 3:24pm / 4:43pm (LocalMars Time)

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