The most photogenic a picture of Mars – a surprise from the “Hubble” – GISMETEO.Novosti

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The space telescope “Hubble” photographed the Mars close-up: The photograph shows the details of the relief of up to 30 km. Picture unanimously sent the most “photogenic” the image of the Red Planet

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The gentle, ghostly, blue area in the photo ?? clouds and morning mist. Rusty-red area at the center ?? Terra Arabia, mountainous region, one of the oldest on the planet. Dark stripes in the region Sinus Sabeus indicate the presence of grains of sand, emerging from ancient lava flows. The rightmost dark area ?? Syrtis Major, an inactive shield volcano. To the south of the Great Sirte basin round ?? Pool Valley Hellas formed 3.5 billion years ago an asteroid hit.

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Sun and Mars will be on opposite sides of the Earth on 22 May. As a result, the Red Planet will appear before the eyes of Earthlings fully illuminated. May 30th Mars will come to earth as close as possible in the last 11 years ?? 7.5 million kilometers.

«Hubble» took the picture May 12, 2016, when Mars was 8 million km from Earth. The elliptical orbit of Mars leads the planet close to Earth about every two years. The distance between the two planets varies from 56 million to 101 million kilometers. For a complete revolution around the Sun to Mars takes almost twice longer than the earth, so the Red Planet appears in the vicinity of the earth once every 26 months.