Photo credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft used its High Resolution Stereo Camera to capture icy hills and valleys across the Australe Scopuli region of the planet’s southern hemisphere.
What see here are swirls of carbon dioxide ice and dust layers that turns Mars in a winter-like wonderland. Skiing or sleighing would be near impossible due to potential dust jets, while the dark patches depict where the ice has already sublimated away (turned from solid ice into vapor).
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At first glance this looks like a beautiful winter wonderland scene, with layers of snow and ice hugging the hilltops. But this is almost summer at the south pole of Mars, and the Sun’s warming rays are causing the seasonal ice layers to retreat,” said the ESA.
