Beautiful images of the "red planet" .. A volcano covered with ice on Mars ?! (Photos)

The space exploration mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has sent new images of Mars, showing another aspect of the red planet through its picturesque terrain.

The images show an 82-kilometer long corolla volcano, covered with an ice cover, near the north pole of Mars.

It is estimated that the volcano contains about 2,200 cubic kilometers of frozen ice water up to a depth of 2 km.

The Mars Express mission of the European Space Agency started in 2003 and came into orbit around March on this year's Christmas Day, marking the 15th anniversary of its scientific program.

The images sent by the mission were considered a "big party" on the occasion of Christmas, according to the European Agency.

The images were taken from the Mars Express High Resolution Camera and the images are composed of five slides combined to form a single image.

The volcano called Koroliev, the chief engineer of Soviet space rockets, also known as the "father of Soviet space technology".

The images arrive a few weeks after the US space probe "Insight" landed on the surface of Mars, which allowed it to send images to Earth.