Postcards From Mars

Impressing images.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Postcards From Mars a picture of a dust storm clipped from www.nytimes.com A portion of the inner wall of the 60-mile Columbus Crater, located in the southern hemisphere identified hydrated minerals in the layers, providing more evidence of past water clipped from www.nytimes.com The landscape within a crater "shoreline" of a hypothesized ancient ocean clipped from www.nytimes.com picture of Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons clipped from www.nytimes.com On Mars, there is more than one type of ice frozen carbon dioxide -- which shapes and reshapes the Martian landscape From left blocks of icy debris swirling dust devils surface erodes in scalloped ridges sand dunes emerge ice warms into gas and expands plumes and material is carried downwind clipped from www.nytimes.com In the polar regions The bright white areas are frost and the swirling patterns have been carved by erosion clipped from www.nytimes.com This ridge, located in the far north of Mars, may have been created by an ancient glacier An impact crater is located in the center clipped from www.nytimes.com high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Orbiter revealed complex textures shaping the Martian landscape today