Fly across Nili Fossae with ESA s Mars Express

Marss surface is covered in all manner of scratches and scars. Its many marks include the fingernail scratches of Tantalus Fossae, the colossal canyon system of Valles Marineris, the oddly orderly ridges of Angustus Labyrinthus, and the fascinating features captured in todays video release from Mars Express: the cat scratches of Nili Fossae. Nili Fossae comprises parallel trenches hundreds of metres deep and several hundred kilometres long, stretching out along the eastern edge of a massive impact crater named Isidis Planitia. This new video features observations from Mars Express s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). It first flies northwards towards and around these large trenches, showing their fractured, uneven appearance, before turning back to head southwards. It ends by zooming out to a birds eye view, with the landing site of NASAs Perseverance rover, Jezero Crater, visible in the lowermiddle part of the final scene. (You can explore this crater further via ESAs interactive