Mars Valentine 2020

Happy St. Valentine’s Day from Mars! This year the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) team is celebrating with a CTX image from Amazonis Planitia.

This image of a heart-shaped mesa was taken by the CTX camera on the MRO spacecraft on October 15, 2019. The feature is approximately three kilometers wide and located at 2.4°N, 169.4°W, near the equator of Mars.

Over the past 21 years, Malin Space Science Systems has featured other heart-shaped martian landforms on Valentine's Day in images acquired by MRO CTX and the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). These previous examples can be viewed by clicking on the following links: