Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard

Solar System -

Mars

Images of Mars

A Martian sunset taken by Spirit at Gusev crater, May 19, 2005
                                                   Credit: NASA
Phobos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.  Of Mars' two moons, Phobos is the larger being about 27 x 22 x 18 km giving an average diameter of 22 km.  It also orbits closer to Mars than Deimos at a distance of only 9,377 km (5,827 miles) from the center of Mars.  Due to being so close, and suffering the affect of the tides induced by Mars, its orbit is decaying so it will eventually hit Mars or, as is more likely, get broken up.  This is likely to occur in about 7 to 11 million years time. 
                                                     Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Hubble Space Telescope, true color image taken June 26, 2001, when  Mars was approximately 43 million miles from Earth.  The photograph shows features as small as 10 miles across.  Note the huge dust storm over the north pole at the top of the picture. 

                             Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Two photographs of Olympus Mons, nearly three times the height of Mount Everest. 
                                                                                 Credit: NASA
A mosaic based on a series of 102 images taken by the Viking 1 Orbiter in 1980.  The center of the image shows the Valles Marineris canyon system, which is over 3,000 km (1,865 miles) long and up to 8 km (5 miles) deep. 
Image Processing by Jody Swann/Tammy Becker/Alfred McEwen

Credit: NASA
Victoria Crater  from Cape Verde taken by Opportunity.  Victoria Crater is about 800 meters (½ mile) wide. 
Stickney Crater on Phobos
Photographs of the moon Deimos taken in 2009 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

                                 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008. 
Image taken by the
Viking 1Orbiter in 1977
Credit: NASA
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