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The European Space Agency has released the early results from its Mars Express probe now orbiting the Red Planet.
The data include a batch of remarkable pictures taken at very high resolution.
The images show what appear to be sediments left in the bottoms of river-cut valleys, and details as fine as dust blowing over the rims of craters.
"This is no ordinary spacecraft," said David Southwood, Esa's head of science. "This is only the beginning. There is more to come in the next two years."
The science results were released at a news conference at Esa's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
The event took place as the US space agency attempted to make full contact with its Spirit Mars rover, which has inexplicably stopped sending data back to Earth.
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