• Question: what is the best photo of mars from a satellite?

    Asked by table555 to Will, Silvia, Isaac, Betty on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Silvia Pardo

      Silvia Pardo answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      This on is tricky: on one hand we haven’t sent many satellites to Mars, on the other hand the photos they take are all awesome. The best I’ve ever seen is this one made of 100’s of satellites pictures from the Viking-1 orbiter:

      The “scar” in the middle is the Mariner Valley, the second largest canyon in the Solar System!

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