Images from Mars Express
Quick Facts
Subjects: | physics, chemistry, geography |
Level: | primary, lower secondary, upper secondary |
Languages: | English, Français |
Type: | support materials |
Format: | PDFs |
Contents
The European satellite Mars Express has been photographing the surface of the Red Planet since January 2004. The most interesting of these images can be found here, complete with comments, in downloadable files so that teachers can use them more easily in class.
Some of the images are in 3D and can only be viewed with special red/green glasses, which are easy to make using cellophane.
High resolution images, which you are free to use in class, can be downloaded from ESA's multimedia gallery.
Images published between January and November 2004
Download the full text in one PDF file or each chapter individually.
- Full text
PDF (4,3 MB)
- Introduction
PDF (47 KB)
- First Mars Express images
PDF (105 KB)
- Volcanoes
PDF (575 KB)
- Valles
PDF (710 KB)
- Mesas and Fossaes
PDF (1,2 MB)
- Chasma
PDF (867 KB)
- Impact craters
PDF (739 KB)
Images published after November 2004
- Frozen sea on Mars
PDF (104 KB)
- Glacial, volcanic and fluvial activities
PDF (279 KB)
- Some Chasmas
PDF (122 KB)
- Fractures - Claritas Fossae
PDF (241 KB)
- Hourglass craters
PDF (122 KB)
- Medusa Fossae
PDF (507 KB)
- Yardings
PDF (38 KB)
- The Mesas of Chaos Aurem
PDF (388 KB)
- Coprates Chasma and Coprates Catena
PDF (309 KB)
- Ancient floods on Mars
PDF (252 KB)
- Tithonium Chasma up close
PDF (412 KB)
- Crater Holden and Uzboi Vallis
PDF (460 KB)