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Mars Express Team Celebrates 20 Years

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Tom Patton
Jun 07, 2023
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A new mosaic of Mars marks 20 years since the launch of ESA's Mars Express, and reveals the planet’s color and composition in spectacular detail. The mosaic was created using data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC).

HRSC normally photographs Mars’s surface from an altitude of about 300 km – the closest the spacecraft gets to Mars …

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