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The Spiral North Pole of Mars

A  mosaic from ESA’s Mars Express and by the Mars Orbiter Camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor shows off the Red Planet’s north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs.

A mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars. This view is similar to what one would see from a spacecraft, according to NASA.

A boulder-strewn field of red rocks stretches across the horizon in this self-portrait of Viking 2 on Mars' Utopian Plain. Viking 2 landed Sept. 3,1976, some 4,600 miles from the twin Viking 1 craft, which touched down on July 20.  

Olympus Mons in Mars

This computer-generated images depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater, beginning to catch morning light. The Gale Crater is 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter and holds a layered mountain rising about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor. The intended landing site is at 4.5 degrees south latitude, 137.4 degrees east longitude. 

Phobos floats on Mars seen by Mars Express spacecraft

Actual color images of Mars, taken by the OSIRIS instrument aboard Rosetta, on February 24, 2007.