ESA's Mars Express celebrates 20 years with beautiful global mosaic

The ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has captured a mosaic of the Red Planet in detail like we've never seen before.

Published Jun 12th, 2023 7:36PM EDThas studied the Red Planet for 20 years. It’s hard to believe it has been that long, but the Express has given us a lot of great data to build on our goals to understand and map the Martian surface. To celebrate the spacecraft’s anniversary, the ESA has released a beautiful global mosaic showing Mars off in more detail than we have ever seen.

Mars was given its nickname thanks to its red-like sandy color. And while it’s easy to think of the planet as just being one massive, sprawling collection of sand dunes, there are other colors at work here, too. The ESA’s latest Mars Express mosaic gives us a

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