The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

But in April, photos from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter revealed that the spiders had emerged in great numbers at a region near Mars' south ...

Dust storms there can engulf the entire planet (ESA) However ... Data was then used from the agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and rover data to determine ...

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