Thursday, 20 December 2018

"Snowy" snap celebrates 15 years in orbit for Mars Express

Korolev Crater is named after Soviet rocket pioneer Sergi Korolev

Christmas Day 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of ESA's Mars Express orbiter arriving at the Red Planet and to mark the occasion the space agency has released a suitably festive image of a crater that seems filled with fresh snow. In fact, it's of Korolev Crater and it's filled with perpetually frozen ice due to a remarkable meteorological phenomenon.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2BBecYX

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