January 19, 2013

A part of Reull Vallis photographed by the Mars Express space probe (Image ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum))

ESA’s Mars Express space probe photographed a part of the region of Mars called Reull Vallis with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The photographed structure looks like a river and in fact it’s likely to have been formed when water flowed in the distant past.