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This snapshot from our Mars Express is packed full of them.

This view of Mars shows a slice of Arabia Terra, a large plain in Mars’s ancient highlands.

Arabia Terra is truly ancient. As a result, it’s had lots of time to add to its impressive crater collection – between 3.7 and 4.1 billion years, in fact.

Some are filled with strikingly dark material, others are home to lighter sands and rippling dunes.

The most prominent crater seen in the image, is Trouvelot Crater. This crater is around 130 km across, and shows signs of being very old: it has a rim that has long since started to crumble away, uneven interior ‘terraced’ walls that have collapsed under their own weight over time, and a number of smaller overlapping and overlaid craters that have formed since the creation of Trouvelot Crater itself.

This image was captured by one of eight instruments aboard our Mars Express: the High Resolution Stereo Camera. Mars Express has been exploring Mars’s many landscapes since it launched in 2003. It has mapped the planet’s surface at unprecedented resolution, in colour, and in three dimensions for over two decades.

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