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The largest volcano
05 Sep. 03: Millions of people are watching the Mars in dark nights of these days, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recorded one of the best views of the Mars in late last month, when it came to the closest distance from the earth in 60,000 years. Figure 02 gives you a potion of northern hemisphere of the Mars, which features the largest known volcano in any planet of our solar system, Olympus Mons. According to the NASA's document, this volcano (oval shape mark at the center of the image) is three times higher than the Mt. Everest, and as large as Arizona. Also there is a cloud layer over the northern polar region of the image. These clouds have formed over the region, as the northern hemisphere is passing the mid winter season now.
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The ice cap
01 Sep. 03: Mars lovers are now enjoying the closed view of the red planet throughout the world. The NASA's Hubble Space Telescope released the closest view taken by the telescope and today we isolate the southern ice cap to have a closer view. The image here has slightly enlarged from its original size. Hubble took this image when the distance between two planets was 55.75 million km. According to the NASA's explanation, image took in the middle of summer to the southern hemisphere to Mars; hence the ice cap has the minimal of its size. Mars ice is made of tow major types, carbon dioxide ice, which is visible here and water ice, which is hidden under the carbon dioxide ice.
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The closest Mars!
27 Aug. 03: Uniting entire world into single topic, the red planet Mars came closest to the Earth yesterday night, in nearly 60,000 years. The NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got the best view of this extremely rare incident and released the images today. According to the NASA, Hubble grabbed the image, when the Earth and Mars were 55,757,930 km apart. The significant features on the image are the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons (the oval-shaped object in center, up) and the "Eye of Mars" or the region also names as Solis Lacus (below, right). Mars lovers around the world overjoyed by this detailed image released by NASA.
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