Europe's first Mars explorer, the Mars Express, that arrived on Mars on December 25, 2003, just reached another milestone by completing 5000 orbits of Mars. This is just one of many of Mars Express' accomplishments. Some of the most visually astonishing results have been returned by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which has produced breathtaking, 3D colour images of the martian surface. The Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer OMEGA, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding, MARSIS,the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), the Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer, SPICAM, the Energetic Atoms Analyser (ASPERA), and the MaRS radio science experiment have all helped to make significant scientific contributions.
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