Every month, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched in 2005, sends images back to Earth.
A recent batch of more than 1,000 photographs coincided with the Martian equinox when the sun shone directly onto the planet’s equator, revealing clear views of a surprisingly diverse, multicoloured terrain normally shrouded in darkness.
View the complete image set here.
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God I hate Mars, I wish a giant comet would just take it out of the sky. Stupid thing.
Now what has Mars ever done to you?
No peanuts.
Topiv-al
The WiFi is spotty at best and there’s a complete and utter lack of Pokestops
stupid red uninhabited bastard
Nothing to do with that Jeff Wayne incident involving green gas and a fantastic soundtrack?
Mars, a planet populated entirely by robots.
I prefer Jupiter, it’s gas altogether.
Man, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen you post!
+100 blushirts
That’s brilliant! Excellent work.
I’m pretty sure that the hirise camera produces false colour. This isn’t the way it would look to the eye, which would be reddish.