Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, highlighting a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared images of a region known as Arabia Terra, a sprawling, ancient region in Mars' northern hemisphere thought to be more than 3.7 billion years old. The images were taken by ESA's long-running Mars Express orbiter on Oct. 12, 2024, during its 26,233rd orbit of the planet. But the shots were only recently processed into a richly detailed color and topographic view, according to a statement from the space agency.
