Mars terrain highlighted by frosty features in 'winter wonderland' image
orbiter on May 19. This means that the frigid image actually represents spring in the Martian southern hemisphere and the Martian ice was beginning to recede. marks a new year, on Dec. 26, the Red Planet will commence its own new year, which will last 687 Earth days.
Arguably the most prominent features in the newly released image are two massive impact craters, banded with alternating layers of water ice and sediments called"polar layered deposits." These deposits can also be seen in the ridge that stretches between the two craters.As the ice is depleted, more elevated regions appear frost-free, and throughout the image dark dunes poke through the surface frost in other areas.
Other dark spots in the image represent this dust and the action of jets that erupt through the icy surface when underlying carbon dioxide ice is transformed straight into gas, a process called sublimation. These jets cause geysers of dust to launch into theThe full view of Ultimi Scopuli on Mars captured by the Mars Express spacecraft in May 2022.
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