Snow on Mars – Statement

LONDON (Reuters) – The Sun published images of the crater on the surface of Mars, covered with a thick layer of ice 2 km.

With a diameter of 50 miles "more than 80 kilometers".

The newspaper reported that the display of the nozzle was equivalent to the offer of 170 football stadiums. She added that the enormous depth of the crater, nearly two kilometers, allowed her to hold the ice inside, leaving her frozen all year round.

The images of the nozzle were taken with the help of the German HRSC camera, integrated with the Mars Express satellite of the European Space Agency, specifically launched to monitor and capture Mars.

In a press release, the agency said the images of the Koroliev mound included "five different areas that were badembled to form a complete individual image." Each part of the photo was taken from within the photo. a different orbit around Mars ".

"The nozzle in the images also appears in a context illustrating the perspective, context and topographic features of the surrounding surface of the planet," said the agency.

The volcanic crater of the volcano on the red planet is called Koroliev, named after the Russian designer of space vehicles, Sergey Korolyev, founder of Russian space technology.