Mars' North Pole Fly-Around Delivered By European Probe | Video

Monday, December 9, 2013 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

Data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding instrument, MARSIS. aboard ESA's Mars Express has been used to create this animation of the Red Planets north pole. The ice cap is about 1000km in diameter (621 miles).

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