BigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars
Charitum Montes ESA's Mars Express took this high-resolution view of Charitum Montes, seen here in natural color. Centered around 53°S and 334°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 20 meters per pixel. The heavily cratered region in this image is at the edge of the almost 1,000-kilometer-long mountain range, which itself wraps around the boundary of the Argyre impact basin, the second largest on Mars. Click here to make it bigger. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)ESA's Mars Express orbiter snaps some 3-D images. The high-resolution image above shows a region on Mars called Charitum Montes, a mountain range on the planet's southern hemisphere. The brighter features are covered in seasonal carbon dioxide frost. ESA's Mars Express orbiter shot these photos in June, which would have been winter in the southern hemisphere. The terrain here is very old, which you can tell by the filled-in craters. The area also has smaller pedestal...