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Automatic Mars Express interplanetary station launched in 2003 into the orbit of the Red Planet by the European Space agency, twice photographed an ice-filled crater Queen, named after the Soviet space designer Sergey Korolev and located in the so-called North Sea Mars. ESA seems to have published these images in Happy Christmas and Happy New Year.
A photo from open sources
Amazing photos show Queen’s crater covered a thick layer of snow-white ice. Deepening is very similar to a plate with milk or semolina porridge. Many users of the World the web was very impressed with these frames of Mars and even they said they would like to skate there. It is reported that these are the most high-quality, clear and beautiful pictures of the crater Queen made in the entire history of observations of distant Red the planet.
The Mars Express spacecraft completed these photos while flying over the northern Martian regions, where it is always cold. Crater The queen has a diameter of over 80 kilometers and is located near the north pole of the planet. At first glance, you might think that a huge depression filled with snow, but in fact it is extremely dense ice about 1.8 kilometers thick. According to the assumption of scientists, he never melts, because here never not getting warm.
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