Mars: Current missions

Mars Express is the European mission to Mars, their first. It has only recently arrived and started to turn out images and results. One advantage over NASA missions is that Mars Express can take "true" color pictures:

http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/ (50 km across)

You might need to click on the image and look at the full-size version to see the great layered cliff views.

The Europeans seem not to have figured out how big a deal a good web page could and should be, nor are they apparently big on informative captions.

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