Mars image: Eyeball crater Aonia Terra

Europe's Mars Express orbiter photographed this eyeball-like crater within the colorful landscape of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

It looks like a Mars impact crater is looking up at the European Mars Express.

The unnamed crater on Mars was imaged by the European Space Agency. On June 8th, the image was released in a post.

There is a dark dune field inside the crater. Many different materials and a textured history can be seen in the crater captured by the Mars Express high resolution stereo camera.

There are amazing photos from the Perseverance rover's first year on Mars.

The post states that the channels are likely to have carried liquid water across the surface of Mars around 3.5 billion years ago.

There is a crater in the southern highlands of Mars. The ground resolution of the image is approximately 46 feet (14 meters) per pixel, making it a true color image.

Color-coded topraphic image of Aonia Terra

A color-coded topographic image showing part of the scarred landscape that makes up Mars' Aonia Terra. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Lower-lying parts of the surface are shown in blues and purples while higher altitudes are shown in whites and reds. Cone-shaped hills and other inconsistencies on the surface of the inner crater are signs that the space inside the "eye" has previously been filled with a variety of materials

Mars Express has been circling the Red Planet since December 2003 and has been studying the planet's atmosphere. Evidence of water has been found by the craft.

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