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On 24 July 2025, the final experiment in the Surface Avatar mission took place. A total of four robots in the DLR Mars laboratory in Oberpfaffenhofen were commanded by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim on ...
This week, a meeting took place in the Ahr valley with representatives of the district of Ahrweiler and local authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) as part of the RESITEK project to ...
Close cooperation between research and politics is crucial for the safe integration of artificial intelligence into the economy and society. Together with Julia Dunker from her team and Mario ...
Autonomous machine behaviour is increasingly finding its way into everyday life. Assistance systems for certain driving situations are already established in our cars. Other transport sectors are also ...
The German Space Agency at DLR (formerly DLR Space Administration) acts as Germany’s space agency and, in this capacity, implements the Federal Government’s space strategy. It has approximately 300 ...
Anaglyph images can be generated with the nadir channel (which looks directly down at the Martian surface) of the HRSC camera system, operated by DLR on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, and one of the ...
At 600 kilometres wide and 24 kilometres tall, Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the Solar System. To the north lies the crescent-shaped aureole of the Acheron Fossae, an area marked by prominent ...
Between the trenches and the adjacent lowlands, scattered remnants of a once-continuous rock layer – which has not yet been completely eroded – characterise the landscape. These include the many ...
The consequences of various geological processes can be studied in the western part of the Acheron Fossae region – an area strongly influenced by volcanism and the associated tectonic processes.
In the transition from the Martian highlands in the west of the tectonically shaped Acheron Fossae region to the northern lowlands (north is to the right in this image), a high plateau with a very ...
North of the giant Olympus Mons volcano lies an area almost the size of Germany, shaped heavily by tectonic forces and subsequently the deposition of rubble and debris by glaciers: Acheron Fossae – a ...
DLR's HRSC stereo camera onboard Mars Express uses its nine sensors to image the Martian surface at various angles across the flight path. The colour scale in the upper right shows elevation values ...