A FROZEN sea just north of the sun-bathed equator, glaciers in the shadows of the planet’s tallest volcano, and lava fields just a few million years old – these dramatic images of a geologically active Mars are intriguing scientists who believed the planet was long dead.
Features just metres across are visible in colour images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since December 2003. “I have been surprised by what I have seen,” Gerhard Neukum, head of the camera team, told Â鶹´«Ã½ during the 1st Mars Express Science Conference in Noordjwik, the…
