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exploration mission to Mars launched in 2003 by the European Space Agency; consisted of the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2lander
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A European orbiter called Mars Express is also currently circling the Red Planet.
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Phobos, the largest of the Martian moons, taken from Mars Express when it flew by on 9 January 2011.
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An illustration showing the ESA's Mars Express mission, launched in June 2003, in orbit around the planet Credit: ESA/Medialab
Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today 2010
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This flyby was just one of a campaign of 12 Mars Express flybys taking place in February and March 2010.
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The observations had been coordinated in advance with the Mars Express science operations team, to ensure overlap with ozone measurements made in this same period with SPICAM.
Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today 2010
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The Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars SPICAM instrument on Mars Express has been measuring ozone abundances in the Martian atmosphere since 2003, gradually building up a global picture as the spacecraft orbits the planet.
Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today 2010
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Mars Express did leave room for doubt for at least a few hollow spots within Phobos interior.
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The Mars Express spacecraft made a close flyby of Phobos on Wednesday to help provide more data on the interior of Phobos, and all indications are the event was a big success.
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Mr. COWEN: Mars Express, and in fact, some of the recent evidence for, in fact, finding some chemical compounds like clays in the north for the first time were found by Mars Express, and I think the Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter both.
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Again, from Wiki: "…mapping by the Mars Express probe and subsequent volume calculations do suggest the possible presence of vast caverns within the moon and indicate that it is not a solid chunk of rock but a porous body instead".
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