Michael Malin's quest began almost 30 years ago, when the spacecraft Mariner 9 snapped a few pictures of Mars's surface. The probe sent back photos of volcanoes, flood channels and craters--and some intriguing shots of mounds of layered rock in huge canyons. Nobody knew where those mounds...
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A beautiful photograph which is a composite mosaic of Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, created from data recorded by the Viking 1 orbiter which visited the planet in 1980. The scar-like geographical feature across the centre of the planet is Valles Marineris, which, at 4,000 km long,...
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The rover also sent back a selfie from the Mars surface. Compared with the photo taken when it landed in May, the new selfie showed a thin layer of sand and dust on the rover's surface. The rover's telemetry information indicated that the power generation efficiency of its solar wings ha...