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Mars Express Images of Olympus Mons

Posted by michael on from the skycam dept.

tr0llb4rt0 writes "The New Scientist reports on high resolution images of Olympus Mons taken by the ESA's Mars Express probe. Earlier pictures had suffered due to problems syncronizing the images from the high resolution stereo camera but these latest images are of excellent quality and scientists expect the quality of future images to improve further. High resolution images are available at the ESA's Mars Express Multimedia Gallery."

5 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Lava Tubes!! by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's a dead volcano

    and IIRC Mars is not geologically active...

  2. Re:Question by snake_dad · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have some time to kill read these three articles. A very nice write-up of a lot of Mars science and theories.

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  3. Re:Lava Tubes!! by WayneConrad · · Score: 5, Informative

    [Olympus Mons has] nearly 3 times as high as the Everest summit... less gravity to escape, less fuel to burn.

    The gravity at Olympus Mons is higher than average. Check out this gravity map of Mars. All of the black spots (the spots with the highest gravity) are volcanoes; the leftmost black spot on the left hemisphere is Olympus Mons.

    Gravity decreases as you get farther away from the surface, but when you're at the surface, it is the mass of the stuff under your feet that matters.

  4. Re:Question by Lady+Jazzica · · Score: 2, Informative

    The link to the third article should point here.

  5. Re:Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's quite a lot of information that proves water on mars, and some that could go either way to the existence of life in those wet areas.

    Perhaps the best site on the topic at the moment is http://www.marslife.com/

    Truly eye opening