Mars Express

Like Pizza Express - but with less garlic bread - Mars Express is a planetary orbiter launched a few years ago by The European Space Agency (ESA) to map the Martian surface and analyse its atmosphere. Fantastic new high-res images have now been released by ESA, including ones of the infamous face in the Cydonia region, now proven to be caused by a trick of the light.



Browse images on a rotating martian globe at the ESA site. Or, you can view similar (false colour) images at Google Mars.