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Mount Sharp, 2012 - This image shows the base of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, officially Aeolis Mons, which rises 5.5 km (3.4 miles) from the valley floor.
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Ophir Chasma, 2015 - A view of one of Mars' canyons, located on the northern portion of the planet's vast canyon system.
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Nili Patera, 2014 - Located on top of a lava bed at the site of an ancient volcano, Nili Patera is one of the most active dune fields on the planet Mars.
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Gullies, 2017 - These viscous, lobate flow features found in the mid-latitudes of Mars resemble terrestrial moraines, suggesting that these deposits are ice-rich, or may have been ice-rich in the past.
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Yellowknife Bay, 2013 - The rough spherical features in an area called Yellowknife Bay are interpreted as concretions, implying they were formed by water that oozed through pores in the sediment.
© Reuters
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Crater, 2014 - This image of an impact crater on Mars was captured by an orbiter.
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Link, 2012 - This rock outcrop, called Link, show rounded gravel fragments, or clasts, that are up to a couple of centimeters in size.
© Reuters
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Sand dune, 2014 - These are Mars' northern-most sand dunes and can be seen as they emerge from a winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide (dry) ice.
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Acidalia Planitia, 2015 - This plain serves as the fictional landing site of a crewed mission named Ares 3 in the best-selling novel and film 'The Martian.'
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Hellas Planitia, 2011 - The channels on the Hellas Planitia basin range from 1 to 10 m in width.
© Reuters
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Noctis Labyrinthus, 2013 - Perched high on the Tharsis rise in the upper reaches of Valles Marineris, this region is notable for its maze-like system of deep, steep-walled valleys.
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Gale crater, 2013 - Estimated to be between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years old, this crater is probably also a dry lake near the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle.
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Curiosity, 2013 - The car-sized rover designed to explore Gale crater appears as a blue dot near the lower right corner of the image.
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Gale crater, 2012 - Pictured is part of Gale crater's wall where a network of valleys believed to have formed by water erosion enters the crater from the outside.
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Shaler, 2013 - This rock formation is called Shaler.
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Trenches, 2008 - These two trenches were dug by the Robotic Arm of the Phoenix lander.
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Victoria crater, 2006 - The impact crater located in the Meridiani Planum plain is roughly 730 m wide and named after one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships, the first to circumnavigate the globe.
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Meteorite, 2005 - The image of this iron meteorite was captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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Columbia Hills, 2004 - This image shows the Columbia Hills, a range of low hills inside Gusev crater.
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Water, 2015 - This image shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks believed to have been formed by flowing water.
© Reuters
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Garni crater, 2015 - These dark, narrow streaks emerging out of the walls of Garni crater are called recurring slope lineae.
© Reuters
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Circular depression, 2015 - This circular depression on Mars's surface was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February 2015.
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Mars landing, 2012 - This image is one of the first taken after the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
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In color, 2008 - This is one of the first color images of Mars's surface taken after the Phoenix Mars lander spacecraft landed successfully on May 25, 2008. It was the first-ever touchdown near Mars's north pole.
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Mars - This is the percussion drill at the end of the Curiosity Robotic Arm, which is making contact with the rock surface on January 27, 2013.
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Hellas Planitia, 2008 - This image shows a perspective view of a mountain in eastern Hellas Planitia where large glaciers were detected hidden under rocky debris.
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Hellas Planitia, 2008 - This is a different perspective view of the mountain in eastern Hellas Planitia where large glaciers were detected hidden under rocky debris.
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Mound, 2017 - This mound appears to have blocked the path of dunes as they move south (to the right of this image).
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Cliff, 2017 - This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an interesting rugged cliff edge.
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Southern hemisphere, 2017 - Shallow pits can be seen in the bright residual cap of carbon dioxide ice next to a deeper, circular formation that penetrates through the ice and dust, which could be an impact crater or a collapse pit.
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Mars, 2016 - The Red Planet is seen here in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Nili Fossae, 2016 - Located on the northwest rim of Isidis Planitia impact basin, Nili Fossae is one of Mars's most colorful regions.
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Mighty sight, 2015 - An aircraft can be seen flying past with the crescent moon and planets Venus and Mars visible nearby.
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Outcrop, 2004 - This image taken by the Opportunity rover shows a puzzling rock formation.
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Frost, 2015 - This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows frost on Mars's surface.
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Rock formation, 2014 - This evenly-layered rock formation displays pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit, suggesting a lake once filled this crater.
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Cumberland, 2014 - The Curiosity rover drilled into this rock target, nicknamed Cumberland.
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Mast Camera, 2012 - This is the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer seen with the Martian landscape in the background.
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Cape Verde, 2006 - Rocky cliffs in the foreground named Cape Verde are located on the rim of Victoria crater. The cliffs were named after the country in honor of Ferdinand Magellan, who visited Cape Verde on his voyage around the world.
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Bathurst Inlet, 2012 - This is the top of Bathurst Inlet, a rock on the surface of Aeolis Palus in the Gale crater.
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Newton crater, 2011 - These water flows appear in the spring and summer on a slope inside of the Newton crater.
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Sheepbed, 2013 - This is an outcrop at the Sheepbed, a mudstone deposit in the Yellowknife Bay area inside Gale crater.
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Marquette Island, 2010 - Marquette Island is a rock about the size of a basketball whose texture composition suggest came from deep inside the Martian crust.
© Reuters
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Becquerel crater, 2008 - The pattern in this sedimentary bedrock within Becquerel crater suggests rhythmic bedding.
© Reuters
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Heimdall, 2008 - The image shows a crater, informally called Heimdall, which has a diameter of 10 km (6 miles).
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Phoenix, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix lander can be seen hanging from its parachute as it descends to the Martian surface.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - A 4,000-meter-high cliff is located in the eastern part of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the planet.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - The network of light-colored, incised valleys look similar to drainage networks found on Earth, suggesting the valleys could have originated from precipitation, groundwater springs, or liquid magma flows.
© Getty Images
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Mars Odyssey, 2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft can be seen orbiting Mars on October 23, 2001.
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Valles Marineris, 2006 - Valles Marineris is Mars's version of the Grand Canyon.
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Reull Vallis, 2004 - The Reull Vallis was likely formed by water. The valley got its name from the Gaelic word for planet.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - This image shows an aerial view of the Echus Chasma, one of Mars' largest water source regions.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - Another view of the valleys and cliffs along the Echus Chasma.
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Sleepy Hollow, 2004 - This panoramic view of Mars shows a circular topographic view, dubbed Sleepy Hollow, found in the Gusev Crater.
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Mars Pathfinder, 1997 - This image shows NASA's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft exploring the planet's terrain in 1997.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - The 2008 images of the Echus Chasma were taken from the European Space Agency's Mars Express.
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Echus Chasma, 2008 - Researchers believe waterfalls may once have plunged over these 4000-meter-high cliffs on to the valley floor. The smoothness of the valley floor suggests it was later flooded by basaltic lava.
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Phoenix, 2008 - This is an artist's conception of the Phoenix lander landing on the Red Planet.
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Mars, 1997 - This incredibly sharp portrait of Mars was taken when the planet was about 100 million km (60 million miles) from Earth.
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Mount Sharp, 2012 - This image shows the base of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, officially Aeolis Mons, which rises 5.5 km (3.4 miles) from the valley floor.
© Reuters
1 / 60 Fotos
Ophir Chasma, 2015 - A view of one of Mars' canyons, located on the northern portion of the planet's vast canyon system.
© Reuters
2 / 60 Fotos
Nili Patera, 2014 - Located on top of a lava bed at the site of an ancient volcano, Nili Patera is one of the most active dune fields on the planet Mars.
© Reuters
3 / 60 Fotos
Gullies, 2017 - These viscous, lobate flow features found in the mid-latitudes of Mars resemble terrestrial moraines, suggesting that these deposits are ice-rich, or may have been ice-rich in the past.
© Reuters
4 / 60 Fotos
Yellowknife Bay, 2013 - The rough spherical features in an area called Yellowknife Bay are interpreted as concretions, implying they were formed by water that oozed through pores in the sediment.
© Reuters
5 / 60 Fotos
Crater, 2014 - This image of an impact crater on Mars was captured by an orbiter.
© Reuters
6 / 60 Fotos
Link, 2012 - This rock outcrop, called Link, show rounded gravel fragments, or clasts, that are up to a couple of centimeters in size.
© Reuters
7 / 60 Fotos
Sand dune, 2014 - These are Mars' northern-most sand dunes and can be seen as they emerge from a winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide (dry) ice.
© Reuters
8 / 60 Fotos
Acidalia Planitia, 2015 - This plain serves as the fictional landing site of a crewed mission named Ares 3 in the best-selling novel and film 'The Martian.'
© Reuters
9 / 60 Fotos
Hellas Planitia, 2011 - The channels on the Hellas Planitia basin range from 1 to 10 m in width.
© Reuters
10 / 60 Fotos
Noctis Labyrinthus, 2013 - Perched high on the Tharsis rise in the upper reaches of Valles Marineris, this region is notable for its maze-like system of deep, steep-walled valleys.
© Reuters
11 / 60 Fotos
Gale crater, 2013 - Estimated to be between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years old, this crater is probably also a dry lake near the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle.
© Reuters
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Curiosity, 2013 - The car-sized rover designed to explore Gale crater appears as a blue dot near the lower right corner of the image.
© Reuters
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Gale crater, 2012 - Pictured is part of Gale crater's wall where a network of valleys believed to have formed by water erosion enters the crater from the outside.
© Reuters
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Shaler, 2013 - This rock formation is called Shaler.
© Reuters
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Trenches, 2008 - These two trenches were dug by the Robotic Arm of the Phoenix lander.
© Reuters
16 / 60 Fotos
Victoria crater, 2006 - The impact crater located in the Meridiani Planum plain is roughly 730 m wide and named after one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships, the first to circumnavigate the globe.
© Reuters
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Meteorite, 2005 - The image of this iron meteorite was captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
© Reuters
18 / 60 Fotos
Columbia Hills, 2004 - This image shows the Columbia Hills, a range of low hills inside Gusev crater.
© Reuters
19 / 60 Fotos
Water, 2015 - This image shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks believed to have been formed by flowing water.
© Reuters
20 / 60 Fotos
Garni crater, 2015 - These dark, narrow streaks emerging out of the walls of Garni crater are called recurring slope lineae.
© Reuters
21 / 60 Fotos
Circular depression, 2015 - This circular depression on Mars's surface was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in February 2015.
© Reuters
22 / 60 Fotos
Mars landing, 2012 - This image is one of the first taken after the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
© Reuters
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In color, 2008 - This is one of the first color images of Mars's surface taken after the Phoenix Mars lander spacecraft landed successfully on May 25, 2008. It was the first-ever touchdown near Mars's north pole.
© Reuters
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Mars - This is the percussion drill at the end of the Curiosity Robotic Arm, which is making contact with the rock surface on January 27, 2013.
© Reuters
25 / 60 Fotos
Hellas Planitia, 2008 - This image shows a perspective view of a mountain in eastern Hellas Planitia where large glaciers were detected hidden under rocky debris.
© Reuters
26 / 60 Fotos
Hellas Planitia, 2008 - This is a different perspective view of the mountain in eastern Hellas Planitia where large glaciers were detected hidden under rocky debris.
© Reuters
27 / 60 Fotos
Mound, 2017 - This mound appears to have blocked the path of dunes as they move south (to the right of this image).
© Reuters
28 / 60 Fotos
Cliff, 2017 - This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an interesting rugged cliff edge.
© Reuters
29 / 60 Fotos
Southern hemisphere, 2017 - Shallow pits can be seen in the bright residual cap of carbon dioxide ice next to a deeper, circular formation that penetrates through the ice and dust, which could be an impact crater or a collapse pit.
© Reuters
30 / 60 Fotos
Mars, 2016 - The Red Planet is seen here in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
© Reuters
31 / 60 Fotos
Nili Fossae, 2016 - Located on the northwest rim of Isidis Planitia impact basin, Nili Fossae is one of Mars's most colorful regions.
© Reuters
32 / 60 Fotos
Mighty sight, 2015 - An aircraft can be seen flying past with the crescent moon and planets Venus and Mars visible nearby.
© Reuters
33 / 60 Fotos
Outcrop, 2004 - This image taken by the Opportunity rover shows a puzzling rock formation.
© Reuters
34 / 60 Fotos
Frost, 2015 - This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows frost on Mars's surface.
© Reuters
35 / 60 Fotos
Rock formation, 2014 - This evenly-layered rock formation displays pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit, suggesting a lake once filled this crater.
© Reuters
36 / 60 Fotos
Cumberland, 2014 - The Curiosity rover drilled into this rock target, nicknamed Cumberland.
© Reuters
37 / 60 Fotos
Mast Camera, 2012 - This is the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer seen with the Martian landscape in the background.
© Reuters
38 / 60 Fotos
Cape Verde, 2006 - Rocky cliffs in the foreground named Cape Verde are located on the rim of Victoria crater. The cliffs were named after the country in honor of Ferdinand Magellan, who visited Cape Verde on his voyage around the world.
© Reuters
39 / 60 Fotos
Bathurst Inlet, 2012 - This is the top of Bathurst Inlet, a rock on the surface of Aeolis Palus in the Gale crater.
© Reuters
40 / 60 Fotos
Newton crater, 2011 - These water flows appear in the spring and summer on a slope inside of the Newton crater.
© Reuters
41 / 60 Fotos
Sheepbed, 2013 - This is an outcrop at the Sheepbed, a mudstone deposit in the Yellowknife Bay area inside Gale crater.
© Reuters
42 / 60 Fotos
Marquette Island, 2010 - Marquette Island is a rock about the size of a basketball whose texture composition suggest came from deep inside the Martian crust.
© Reuters
43 / 60 Fotos
Becquerel crater, 2008 - The pattern in this sedimentary bedrock within Becquerel crater suggests rhythmic bedding.
© Reuters
44 / 60 Fotos
Heimdall, 2008 - The image shows a crater, informally called Heimdall, which has a diameter of 10 km (6 miles).
© Reuters
45 / 60 Fotos
Phoenix, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix lander can be seen hanging from its parachute as it descends to the Martian surface.
© Reuters
46 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - A 4,000-meter-high cliff is located in the eastern part of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the planet.
© Getty Images
47 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - The network of light-colored, incised valleys look similar to drainage networks found on Earth, suggesting the valleys could have originated from precipitation, groundwater springs, or liquid magma flows.
© Getty Images
48 / 60 Fotos
Mars Odyssey, 2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft can be seen orbiting Mars on October 23, 2001.
© Getty Images
49 / 60 Fotos
Valles Marineris, 2006 - Valles Marineris is Mars's version of the Grand Canyon.
© Getty Images
50 / 60 Fotos
Reull Vallis, 2004 - The Reull Vallis was likely formed by water. The valley got its name from the Gaelic word for planet.
© Getty Images
51 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - This image shows an aerial view of the Echus Chasma, one of Mars' largest water source regions.
© Getty Images
52 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - Another view of the valleys and cliffs along the Echus Chasma.
© Getty Images
53 / 60 Fotos
Sleepy Hollow, 2004 - This panoramic view of Mars shows a circular topographic view, dubbed Sleepy Hollow, found in the Gusev Crater.
© Getty Images
54 / 60 Fotos
Mars Pathfinder, 1997 - This image shows NASA's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft exploring the planet's terrain in 1997.
© Getty Images
55 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - The 2008 images of the Echus Chasma were taken from the European Space Agency's Mars Express.
© Getty Images
56 / 60 Fotos
Echus Chasma, 2008 - Researchers believe waterfalls may once have plunged over these 4000-meter-high cliffs on to the valley floor. The smoothness of the valley floor suggests it was later flooded by basaltic lava.
© Getty Images
57 / 60 Fotos
Phoenix, 2008 - This is an artist's conception of the Phoenix lander landing on the Red Planet.
© Getty Images
58 / 60 Fotos
Mars, 1997 - This incredibly sharp portrait of Mars was taken when the planet was about 100 million km (60 million miles) from Earth.
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These incredible images of Mars will make you wish you could visit
The Red Planet is closer than you think
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The Red Planet just made its closest approach to Earth since 2003, putting 57.6 million km (35.8 million miles) between us. The number might not mean much to us commoners, but Mars won't be this close to Earth again until 2287, according to Space.com.
Browse the gallery and delve into the beautiful landscapes of our celestial neighbor.
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