New Images Show Red Planet In All Its Glory

A dynamic seasonal planet - bright and frosty polar caps above a vivid rust-coloured landscape - has been revealed in the latest pictures of Mars. The images were captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on 12 May, when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth. Far to the right is the large dark region of Syrtis Major Planitia, one of the first things identified on the planet's surface in the 17th century.