Marvels From Mars: Stunning Postcards From the Red Planet

Written By Michael Hanlon
January 20th, 2010

The Red Planet, Mars, fascinates us like no other celestial body. We have yet to visit the most Earth-like world in the solar system in person, but since the Sixties a small armada of space probes have poked and prodded the dusty Martian surface. And, as these astonishing images show, they have taken the most spectacular close-up pictures while orbiting the planet. Because Mars has so little air, and certainly no substantial running water and no vegetation, the processes of weathering and erosion, so important on Earth, operate differently on Mars.