The planet Mars taken from the Hubble space telescope

The planet Mars taken from the Hubble space telescope. The Hubble space telescope has taken detailed pictures, including an image of the planet’s southern polar ice cap and theHellas basin impact crater. Mars reached its closest point to Earth in 60,000 years at exactly 1051 GMT on Wednesday 27 August 2003. The Red Planet came to within 55.75 million kilometres of our world, almost the closest its orbit can come to its blue planetary neighbour.
Star gazers took advantage of the historic event to take a closelook at Mars. EPA PHOTO/NASA/-//