Fly over Mawrth Vallis

This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, highlights Mawrth Vallis, a 600 km-long, 2 km-deep outflow channel at the boundary of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of Mars.

The movie begins at the mouth of the channel in Chryse Planitia, and heads towards the apparent source region in the Arabia Terra highlands.

The 4 billion year-old plateau is characterised by many impact craters, indicative of its great age.

Zooming in, patches of light and dark deposits are revealed. The light-toned layered sediments are among the largest outcrops of clay minerals – phyllosilicates – on Mars. Their presence indicates the presence of liquid water in the past.

The variety of water-bearing minerals and the possibility that they might contain a record of an ancient, habitable environment on Mars led scientists to propose Mawrth Vallis as a candidate landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission.

The animation is based on a colour mosaic and digital terrain model derived from data collected by the high-resolution stereo camera on Mars Express and released earlier this year.

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Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

[maoqiutong]

This is where Mark Watney had been while driving his Martian rover to Ares 4 MAV.

[athanasiosklidaras]

As the camera flys over, remember, humans are going to visit this place. Mawrth Vallis, a dried up river channel, is on the shortlist for the most interesting places on Mars to visit- it's being considered as a candidate landing site for Mars 2020 and will undoubtedly be the first or one of the first places visited by human explorers in the future

[LordEvrey]

Mind including a little scale in such videos next time? After all, we don't have known land marks we can use to guess the scale like we have on Earth. Besides that: Beautiful video!

[alessandrosvanascini]

How majestic is at 144p! I love my internet connection.

[nevar]

ESA needs to put out more videos like this. Space agencies are needing to take on the new role of travel agent when it comes to mars, and this definetly helps sell it as a destination.

Impressive! It looks like flying on Mars. Thanks!

[DNH]

may it inspire not just the youth but all of us in a bigger dialogue on who we are, a wise nomad understanding of our resources not forgetting the old ways.

[fleurdubois]

j'avais vu les premières images de mars quand j'étais jeune, le sol rouge le ciel rose, mais là c'est incroyable on dirait qu'il y a eut de l'eau, des fleuves, mais aussi des bombardements de météorites tant il y a des cratères, très beau document je suis fan

[sabahnisan]

Доброе утро, Марс! Будоражещее видео!

[Jesus]

HUMAN FACE again on Mars 1:23 (left bottom) Eyes, lips, nose, neck, round face, and even eyebrows. Very impressive.

[ГенрихМатушка]

Perfectly! But it was even better to insert in the video computer graphics scale. Schematic contours indicate, for example, the size of the aerodrome runway, the height of the Empire Sta- tion Building, etc.

[РусКнязев-еь]

Красивая графика. но настоящая ли. ведь космоса нет и плоская земля под куполом.

[vyachezz]

видео смонтировано по фотографиям переданным спутниками, снимающими Марс с 2003 года :)

[лёлялёлик-бй]

не покидает ощущение что это плато Устюрт в Казахстане!!..
It can not help feeling that this is the Ustyurt plateau in Kazakhstan..

[ICWinner]

Нашим детям через 20 лет будут смешны рассказы о том, что испытываешь от просмотра первого видео с поверхности Марса.

[thisandthat]

Why is it always animated and not the real thing. If I wanted animation I'll watch the Martian

[ДжалалейдинРуми]

!00 % компьютерная графика!!!
И перемещается так легко влево и вправо.

[will]

So there is no plants on martian soil, the bugs are pretty much the same as on the Earth`s deserts, spiders and snakes that hide from the sun during the day and come out at night.

[amarnathg]

This is original Footage or Some Graphics...

[rayoperator]

I’m planning to build a penthouse in Mawrth-Vallis .