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Mars orbiters witness a 'winter wonderland' on the Red Planet (photos)

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These images show what appears to be a snowy landscape in the Australe Scopuli region of Mars .

The "snow" is carbon dioxide ice, and at Mars ' south pole, there's an 8-meter-thick layer of it year-round.

The images were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express and NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter .

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English

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41

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