Merry Christmas from Mars

[Levo-Lon]

Who here, given the chance would take a one way flight to Mars?

I wouldn't.. The air is rationed and they have mutants

 

[Rusty Nails]

Who here, given the chance would take a one way flight to Mars?

I can think of a few I would like to take that one way flight.

 

[irw]

What I don't get, is the article I read says that Mars Express has been there since 2003. Now there have been X many other satellites sent that way over the last two decades or so, along with numerous rovers equipped with little spoons to dig for water/ice...This crater is 50 miles wide, and bright white against a dark red backdrop...how has no-one spotted this before?!

 

[lazybloke]

What I don't get, is the article I read says that Mars Express has been there since 2003. Now there have been X many other satellites sent that way over the last two decades or so, along with numerous rovers equipped with little spoons to dig for water/ice...This crater is 50 miles wide, and bright white against a dark red backdrop...how has no-one spotted this before?!

Near the pole isn't it, so maybe not visible from earth-based viewings. Still, you'd think it would have been seen from an orbiter.

Is anyone else alarmed at the thought of a 50 MILE crater?