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Mars terrain highlighted by frosty features in ‘winter wonderland’ image

The wintery scene of ice over the southern hemisphere of Mars as seen by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft.  (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

A newly released image of Mars shows an icy scene, with ribbons of red and white dancing across a frosty landscape near the planet’s south pole.

While the snowy scene may evoke the feeling of a “winter wonderland” on the Red Planet, it was actually captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter on May 19. This means that the frigid image actually represents spring in the Martian southern hemisphere and the Martian ice was beginning to recede. 

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