Ever wondered what it would be like to fly over the surface of Mars? That's because the European Space Agency has shared an animation offering an overhead glimpse of one of the Red Planet's most stunning spectacles, Noctis Labyrinthus — Latin for 'Labyrinth of Night'. The video was put together with the help of images taken by ESA's Mars Express …
Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. The first evidence of Mercury's shrinkage came in 1974 when the Mariner 10 mission transmitted pictures of kilometres-high scarps snaking their way for hundreds of kilometres across the terrain. To accumulate the 2-3km of total shortening that can be measured across a typical scarp on Mercury …
