Launched from Baikonur on June2, 2003, the European Mars Express satellite provides important new data on mars’ geology, mineralogy and atmosphere. The satellite data will be received in Perth (Australia) and Kourou (French Guyana). The orbital period around...
Perspective view of the crater Korolev near the Martian North Pole. (Photo: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin) The images were taken by the HRSC stereo camera aboard ESA’s “Mars Express” spacecraft and picture the Korolev impact crater, named after Soviet rocket...