Hubble Image Shows Mars In Stunning New Detail
- 8 years ago
NASA just released a new image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, when Mars and Earth were 50 million miles apart.
NASA just released a new image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, when Mars and Earth were 50 million miles apart.
While much of the Red Planet is blanketed by a fine mist of cloud cover, features of the Martian surface appear in strikingly detailed stretches of 20 to 30 miles across.
Such visible geography includes Syrtis Major Planitia, a massive, dark-appearing region on the far right side of the planet that's home to an inactive volcano.
Just south of that region is an oval-like feature known as the Hellas Planitia basin—measuring some 1,100 miles wide and almost five miles deep.
The center of the
NASA just released a new image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, when Mars and Earth were 50 million miles apart.
While much of the Red Planet is blanketed by a fine mist of cloud cover, features of the Martian surface appear in strikingly detailed stretches of 20 to 30 miles across.
Such visible geography includes Syrtis Major Planitia, a massive, dark-appearing region on the far right side of the planet that's home to an inactive volcano.
Just south of that region is an oval-like feature known as the Hellas Planitia basin—measuring some 1,100 miles wide and almost five miles deep.
The center of the