Frozen Sea near Mar's Equator

Originally uploaded by ReidAnderes. A new image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows what appears to be a dust-covered frozen sea near the Martian equator. It shows a flat plain, part of the Elysium Planitia, that is covered with irregular blocky shapes. They look just like the rafts of fragmented sea ice that lie off the coast of Antarctica on Earth. The scene is a few tens of kilometres across, centred on latitude 5º North and longitude 150º East.