Water ice on Mars, just shot by the ESA!

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image showing Water ice on Mars, just shot by the ESA!

MarkHughes4096 on December 21st, 2018 at 12:46 UTC »

So would this be the first place humans might want to be near on arriving ? or is water so common there under the surface that it doesn't matter ?

Digital-Nomad on December 21st, 2018 at 14:20 UTC »

What is the scale of this image? How big is that crater?

Spartan2470 on December 21st, 2018 at 14:40 UTC »

Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:

Title Perspective view of Korolev crater

Released 20/12/2018 11:00 am

Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Description

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Korolev crater, an 82-kilometre-across feature found in the northern lowlands of Mars.

This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered over orbits 18042 (captured on 4 April 2018), 5726, 5692, 5654, and 1412. The crater itself is centred at 165° E, 73° N on the martian surface. The image has aresolution of roughly 21 metres per pixel.

This image was created using data from the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The nadir channel is aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, as if looking straight down at the surface.

Here this is on Google Mars.

Here it is on NASA's Mars Trek.

Edit: Thank you for the correction /u/PageFault. Fixed.

Edit 2: Over here /u/NinjutsuStyle noticed these yellow dots that show up at about 5 o'clock near where the water ice has an edge. Any idea what they could be?