This movie was put together from stills taken during one pass around Mars by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
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One Lap Around the Red Planet
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Jezero Crater on Mars
ESA put together this video of Jezero crater, the landing site for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Plane using images from its Mars Express mission.
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15 Years at Mars
ESA’s Mars Express has been in orbit around Mars since Christmas Day, 2003.
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Neukum Crater on Mars
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Saturn and Phobos
Saturn photobombs Phobos in these 30 images taken by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. Saturn is that small ringed dot near the top of the images.
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Swinging Around Mars
The Visual Monitoring Camera on ESA’s Mars Express was used to image the limb of Mars during most of a complete orbit. The movie was assembled from a series of 403 still images acquired by the camera during 29 April, 2016. The spacecraft was commanded to turn as it orbited Mars, keeping the camera pointing at the brightest point on the horizon as it passed over the southern hemisphere.
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One Orbit Around Mars
This movie was put together from stills taken during one pass around Mars by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
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Phobos 360
Images from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter have been combined into a virtual rotation movie showing what the tiny moon would look like from an orbit around it. The rotation is actually a digital illusion: Phobos is tidally-locked with Mars and always keeps the same face toward its home planet as does our Moon. Phobos is losing about of centimeter of altitude a year and is expected to break up and crash onto Mars within the next 50 million years.
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