Clearest view of Mars

THE HUBBLE SPACE telescope has returned the clearest image of Mars taken from the Earth's vicinity, 103 million kilometres away. Most of the carbon-dioxide frost around the permanent water-ice polar cap on Mars' springtime northern hemisphere has sublimated and wispy white clouds indicate that the atmosphere is cooler than when ...

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