Surface of Mars, artwork. Mars is a rocky desert world with no surface water. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide and Martian surface temperatures

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Surface of Mars, artwork. Mars is a rocky desert world with no surface water. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide and Martian surface temperatures are well below freezing. Mars has a diameter around half Earth's, and a surface gravity around a third that of Earth's. Mars orbits the Sun at a distance of around 230 million kilometres. Impact craters, sand dunes, mesas and canyons, and erosion features from wind and ancient water flows are depicted here.

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Size: 5577px × 3156px
Photo credit: © GARY HINCKS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -sdo, 2003, 90377, artwork, astronomical, astronomy, cloud, detached, disc, dwarf, extended, illustration, minor, object, oort, planet, planetoid, scattered, sedna, solar, space, star, stars, sun, surface, system, tno, trans-neptunian, vb12, view